<?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[Where the light wings of Zephyr, oppress'd with perfume, Wax faint o'er the gardens of Gul in her bloom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where the light wings of Zephyr, oppress'd with perfume, Wax faint o'er the gardens of Gul in her bloom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8848]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enjoy yourself, for there is nothing in the world we can call our own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62210]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enjoy yourself, for there is nothing in the world we can call our own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there were no bad people there would be no good lawyers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24364]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there were no bad people there would be no good lawyers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who pants for glory, finds but short repose; A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17558]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who pants for glory, finds but short repose; A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then westward ho! Grace and good disposition attend your ladyship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then westward ho! Grace and good disposition attend your ladyship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is to little. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/231]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is to little.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The goal is to unify AOL Time Warner, to sharpen its focus, capture synergies for growth and strengthen the integration ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34289]]></link><description><![CDATA[The goal is to unify AOL Time Warner, to sharpen its focus, capture synergies for growth and strengthen the integration of the company. We are not cutting into muscle, and these are not across-the-board cuts. It's only where appropriate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Last week I helped my friend stay put. It's a lot easier than helping someone move. I just went over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Last week I helped my friend stay put. It's a lot easier than helping someone move. I just went over to his house and made sure that he did not start to load his shit into a truck.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In an odd way, all the appliances that the advertisers put out there, and said, `Buy this brand-new stove!', `Buy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37199]]></link><description><![CDATA[In an odd way, all the appliances that the advertisers put out there, and said, `Buy this brand-new stove!', `Buy the fridge!' `Make Jell-O!', all that horrible nutrition that came up because of instant pudding, Jell-O, fish sticks, TV dinners, all of that that I had before dismissed as the death of our culture -- I realized that housewives wanted these things, because they wanted time back, ... A washing machine gave them time to do something else. It gave them time to read a book. ... A woman didn't want to cook all day. These things that were sold to Americans were actually a gift, in a very strange way. I really enjoyed having to blow that notion out of my head.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible, and truly it seems that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible, and truly it seems that we are never so alive as when we concern ourselves with other people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59884]]></link><description><![CDATA[The finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing is assumed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like a good hater. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18855]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like a good hater.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans. Aim high in hope and work. Remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43260]]></link><description><![CDATA[With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6112]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need a plumber to install showers; we want to expand the playground for the children; we also want to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41498]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need a plumber to install showers; we want to expand the playground for the children; we also want to incorporate classes that will benefit the mothers into our schedule.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1207]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have – life itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is nothing but everyday living seen through a veil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is nothing but everyday living seen through a veil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse! -King Richard III. Act v. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56027]]></link><description><![CDATA[A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse! -King Richard III. Act v. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This day was yesterday to-morrow nam'd: To-morrow shall be yesterday proclaimed:  To-morrow not yet come, not far away,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59463]]></link><description><![CDATA[This day was yesterday to-morrow nam'd: To-morrow shall be yesterday proclaimed:  To-morrow not yet come, not far away,   What shall to-morrow then be call'd? To-day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20795]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For thou, o Lord of hosts, God of Israel, hast revealed to thy servant, saying, I will build thee an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23460]]></link><description><![CDATA[For thou, o Lord of hosts, God of Israel, hast revealed to thy servant, saying, I will build thee an house: therefore hath thy servant found in his heart to pray this prayer unto thee. (2 Samuel 7:27)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hatched in the same nest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50237]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hatched in the same nest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19662]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're very athletic and they run the floor. They have tough-minded guys and they never give up. Even when you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34524]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're very athletic and they run the floor. They have tough-minded guys and they never give up. Even when you have a lead, they always find a way to come back. It's an ACC game and it's going to be a close game I'm sure. We're just going to have to be consistent throughout the game; we can't have long periods where we don't score.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But Barry, to me, is head and shoulders above everybody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41468]]></link><description><![CDATA[But Barry, to me, is head and shoulders above everybody.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth is not determined by majority vote. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth is not determined by majority vote.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66062]]></link><description><![CDATA[Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers.  It makes them siblings, gives them mutuality ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66120]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers.  It makes them siblings, gives them mutuality of parentage.  Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14692]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Authority is never without hate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Authority is never without hate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To get to know a country, you must have direct contact with the earth. It's futile to gaze at the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10208]]></link><description><![CDATA[To get to know a country, you must have direct contact with the earth. It's futile to gaze at the world through a car window.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our customers tend to range in age from teenagers to people about 30. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our customers tend to range in age from teenagers to people about 30.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Masters, it is proved already that you are little better than false knaves; and it will go near to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55454]]></link><description><![CDATA[Masters, it is proved already that you are little better than false knaves; and it will go near to be thought so shortly. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Einstein is an analytical mathematician seeking to give a physical interpretation to the conclusions of his mathematical process. In this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Einstein is an analytical mathematician seeking to give a physical interpretation to the conclusions of his mathematical process. In this he is hampered by a load of contradictory and absurd assumptions of the school that he follows, which throws him into all manner of difficulty. Einstein has such a faculty for embracing both sides of a contradiction that one would have to be of the same frame of mind to follow his thought, it is so peculiarly his own. The whole Relativity theory is as easy to follow as the path of a bat in the air at night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The presence of a body of well-instructed men, who have not to labor for their daily bread, is important to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57070]]></link><description><![CDATA[The presence of a body of well-instructed men, who have not to labor for their daily bread, is important to a degree which cannot be overestimated; as all high intellectual work is carried on by them, and on such work material progress of all kinds mainly depends, not to mention other and higher advantages.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But strong of limb And swift of foot misfortune is, and, far  Outstripping all, comes to every land,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42805]]></link><description><![CDATA[But strong of limb And swift of foot misfortune is, and, far  Outstripping all, comes to every land,   And there wreaks evil on mankind, which prayers    Do afterwards redress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The liberty of the press is a blessing when we are inclined to write against others, and a calamity when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16729]]></link><description><![CDATA[The liberty of the press is a blessing when we are inclined to write against others, and a calamity when we find ourselves overborne by the multitude of our assailants.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any combination of alcohol and gasoline is very unforgiving of water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any combination of alcohol and gasoline is very unforgiving of water.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never be ashamed to write a melody that people remember. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63811]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never be ashamed to write a melody that people remember.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave. -Henry Peter Broughan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave. -Henry Peter Broughan.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, you think it's only a minute. But when you sit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46594]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, you think it's only a minute. But when you sit on a hot stove for a minute, you think it's two hours. That's relativity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of things we're seeing right now are very familiar pieces, but they're done in a new fabric or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36160]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of things we're seeing right now are very familiar pieces, but they're done in a new fabric or color. It's about juxtaposition - denim with velvet. That makes it easy to get a lot of use out of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41060]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two kinds of discontent in this world. The discontent that works, and the discontent that wrings its hands. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10017]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two kinds of discontent in this world. The discontent that works, and the discontent that wrings its hands. The first gets what it wants. The second loses what it has. There's no cure for the first, but success and there's no cure at all for the second.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10017</guid></item></channel></rss>