<?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[Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. He may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46806]]></link><description><![CDATA[The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. He may hold it a long time, or a short time, but it is then that he must strike it or never. School and college have been conducted with the almost express purpose of keeping him busy with something else till the danger of his ever creating anything is past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God cannot alter the past, though historians can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19550]]></link><description><![CDATA[God cannot alter the past, though historians can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good listener is usually thinking about something else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65235]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good listener is usually thinking about something else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who would have the kernel must crack the shell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50868]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who would have the kernel must crack the shell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All that I care to know is that a man is a human being--that is enough for me; he can't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26268]]></link><description><![CDATA[All that I care to know is that a man is a human being--that is enough for me; he can't be any worse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good land, evill way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49288]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good land, evill way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Master books, but do not let them master you. - Read to live, not live to read. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4516]]></link><description><![CDATA[Master books, but do not let them master you. - Read to live, not live to read.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Misery is almost always the result of thinking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Misery is almost always the result of thinking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One who rushes madly after inordinate desire, runs the risk of encountering destruction and death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11361]]></link><description><![CDATA[One who rushes madly after inordinate desire, runs the risk of encountering destruction and death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47112]]></link><description><![CDATA[If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're going to do whatever needs to be done to help us win. The adrenaline was pumping inside me, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28446]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're going to do whatever needs to be done to help us win. The adrenaline was pumping inside me, and all I wanted to do is get guys out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am going to fight capitalism even if it kills me. It is wrong that people like you should be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15671]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am going to fight capitalism even if it kills me. It is wrong that people like you should be comfortable and well fed while all around you people are starving.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20421]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64834]]></link><description><![CDATA[The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet the success of plans and the advantage to be derived from them do not at all times agree, seeing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet the success of plans and the advantage to be derived from them do not at all times agree, seeing the gods claim to themselves the right to decide as to the final result. [Lat., Tametsi prosperitas simul utilitasque consultorum non obique concordent, quoniam captorum eventus superae sibi vindicant potestates.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that I do separate myself a fair amount. And I don't feel like I am representing women. That's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37952]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that I do separate myself a fair amount. And I don't feel like I am representing women. That's up to however people interpret it once they sort of see it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48628]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55795]]></link><description><![CDATA[To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful and ridiculous excess. -King John. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the reason she's done so many of these films is because the '50s is such a rich era ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37206]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the reason she's done so many of these films is because the '50s is such a rich era for describing the journey of a woman,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes 26 muscles to smile, and 62 muscles to frown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56666]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes 26 muscles to smile, and 62 muscles to frown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43958]]></link><description><![CDATA[How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Haste, holy Friar, Haste, ere the sinner shall expire!  Of all his guilt let him be shriven,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18475]]></link><description><![CDATA[Haste, holy Friar, Haste, ere the sinner shall expire!  Of all his guilt let him be shriven,   And smooth his path from earth to heaven!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems  To lie before us like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems  To lie before us like a land of dreams,   So various, so beautiful, so new,    Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,     Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46782]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reality leaves a lot to the imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The peasant thanked her with their tears, When food and clothes were given;  "This is a joy," the lady ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51552]]></link><description><![CDATA[The peasant thanked her with their tears, When food and clothes were given;  "This is a joy," the lady said,   "Saints cannot taste in heaven."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes all sorts to make a world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60446]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes all sorts to make a world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes you have to let go to see if there was anything worth holding on to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes you have to let go to see if there was anything worth holding on to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody knows how to love but few people know how to stay in love with one person forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody knows how to love but few people know how to stay in love with one person forever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prejudice is being down on something you're not up on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48109]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prejudice is being down on something you're not up on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its existence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its existence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also is despotic governments: in the former, because they are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47474]]></link><description><![CDATA[In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also is despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43412]]></link><description><![CDATA[I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's an interesting character, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39842]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's an interesting character,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest people will be those who possess the best capacities, cultivated with the best habits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52135]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest people will be those who possess the best capacities, cultivated with the best habits.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morn on the waters, and purple and bright Bursts on the billows the flushing of light  O'er the glad ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56173]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morn on the waters, and purple and bright Bursts on the billows the flushing of light  O'er the glad waves, like a child of the sun,   See the tall vessel goes gallantly on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2601]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. -Thomas a Kempis.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29528]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If they want to have their wall, fine. What we want is to make sure that we let immigrants in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29353]]></link><description><![CDATA[If they want to have their wall, fine. What we want is to make sure that we let immigrants in legally.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make haste slowly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18796]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make haste slowly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was a huge conference game for us. We needed that bad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32716]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was a huge conference game for us. We needed that bad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instead of thinking about where you are, think about where you want to be. It takes twenty years of hard ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instead of thinking about where you are, think about where you want to be. It takes twenty years of hard work to become an overnight success. -Diana Rankin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who praiseth Saint Peter, doth not blame Saint Paul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who praiseth Saint Peter, doth not blame Saint Paul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having more money does not insure happiness. People with ten milliondollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21768]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having more money does not insure happiness. People with ten milliondollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66212</guid></item></channel></rss>