<?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 love a ballad but even too well if it be doleful matter merrily set down, or a very pleasant ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3702]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love a ballad but even too well if it be doleful matter merrily set down, or a very pleasant thing indeed and sung lamentably.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And you prate of the wealth of nations, as if it were bought and sold, The wealth of nations is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61400]]></link><description><![CDATA[And you prate of the wealth of nations, as if it were bought and sold, The wealth of nations is men, not silk and cotton and gold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wit is cultured insolence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wit is cultured insolence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is gold for you. Sell me your good report. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4909]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is gold for you. Sell me your good report.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25725]]></link><description><![CDATA[In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In idle wishes fools supinely stay; Be there a will,--and wisdom finds a way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48937]]></link><description><![CDATA[In idle wishes fools supinely stay; Be there a will,--and wisdom finds a way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lo, here the gentle lark, weary of rest, From his moist cabinet mounts up on high  And wakes the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24108]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lo, here the gentle lark, weary of rest, From his moist cabinet mounts up on high  And wakes the morning, from whose silver breast   The sun ariseth in his majesty;    Who doth the world so gloriously behold     That cedar tops and hills seem burnished gold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The men with the muck-rake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10197]]></link><description><![CDATA[The men with the muck-rake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck.   - Theodore Roosevelt,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mouse waltzes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3244</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[We are not changing direction we will continue to move full-steam ahead with our core business, which is Blockbuster stores ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38630]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not changing direction we will continue to move full-steam ahead with our core business, which is Blockbuster stores and Blockbuster online,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This woman is amazing. I should take her to one of the classes I teach on debt, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39470]]></link><description><![CDATA[This woman is amazing. I should take her to one of the classes I teach on debt,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mother would say it is literally ghost writerswho come to me(Tan is the author of what became The Joy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58756]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mother would say it is literally ghost writerswho come to me(Tan is the author of what became The Joy Luck Club).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a really high price and everyone's blown away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31337]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a really high price and everyone's blown away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18451]]></link><description><![CDATA[He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The family is the school of duties... founded on love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15158]]></link><description><![CDATA[The family is the school of duties... founded on love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11684]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15332]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44735]]></link><description><![CDATA[One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have asked (commission economists) to give me interim forecasts twice a year as well as the standard forecasts that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37998]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have asked (commission economists) to give me interim forecasts twice a year as well as the standard forecasts that we get twice a year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gather in your resources, rally all your faculties, marshal all your energies, focus all your capacities upon mastery of at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gather in your resources, rally all your faculties, marshal all your energies, focus all your capacities upon mastery of at least one field of endeavor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were trying to take the middle away -- and the post -- and they just had too many guys ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37461]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were trying to take the middle away -- and the post -- and they just had too many guys that [could] go to the boards. We just didn't have enough size for them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A watched clock never tells the time ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8884]]></link><description><![CDATA[A watched clock never tells the time]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Same-sex marriage is not the future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65348]]></link><description><![CDATA[Same-sex marriage is not the future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I got off the soap I got offered all these, you know, 'women in jeopardy' -- I call them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23213]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I got off the soap I got offered all these, you know, 'women in jeopardy' -- I call them 'disease of the week' movies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ideology has very little to do with "consciousness" -- it is profoundly unconscious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47515]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ideology has very little to do with "consciousness" -- it is profoundly unconscious.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our envy of others devours us most of all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14038]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our envy of others devours us most of all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52535]]></link><description><![CDATA[I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God could, if I may say so, more easily have made a new world of innocent creatures, and have governed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7392]]></link><description><![CDATA[God could, if I may say so, more easily have made a new world of innocent creatures, and have governed them by the old covenant, than have established this new one for the salvation of poor sinners; but then, where had been the glory of forgiveness? It could not have been known that there was forgiveness with Him. The old covenant could not have been preserved and sinners pardoned. Wherefore, God choose to leave the covenant than sinners unrelieved, than grace unexalted and pardon unexercised... Will we continue on the old bottom of the first covenant? All we can do therein is to set thorns and briars in the way of God, to secure ourselves from His coming against us and upon us with His indignation and fury. Our sins are so, and our righteousness is no better. And what will be the issue? Both they and we shall be trodden down, consumed, and burnt up. What way, then, what remedy is left unto us? Only this of laying hold on the arm and strength of God in that covenant wherein forgiveness of sin is provided.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it's just scary how hurricanes or any kind of storms could just hit people and let people die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39010]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it's just scary how hurricanes or any kind of storms could just hit people and let people die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm disappointed with the results. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34462]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm disappointed with the results.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is at the bottom an animal, midway, a citizen, and at the top, divine. But the climate of this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20003]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is at the bottom an animal, midway, a citizen, and at the top, divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17280]]></link><description><![CDATA[All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pray you, love, remember. And there is pansies, that's for thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45446]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pray you, love, remember. And there is pansies, that's for thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They told me I could fill right in at the four spot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32712]]></link><description><![CDATA[They told me I could fill right in at the four spot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their goalie played extremely well. He played like he was standing on his head. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38062]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their goalie played extremely well. He played like he was standing on his head.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12410]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is past is prologue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64244]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is past is prologue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful much adulated, very famous and very unhappy ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60091]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful much adulated, very famous and very unhappy]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars — all over Europe, all over the world. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61142]]></link><description><![CDATA[And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars — all over Europe, all over the world. 'Sometimes in the private interest of royal families,' Satan said, 'sometimes to crush a weak nation; but never a war started by the aggressor for any clean purpose — there is no such war in the history of the race.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now scantier limits the proud arch confine, And scarce are seen the prostrate Nile or Rhine;  A small Euphrates ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now scantier limits the proud arch confine, And scarce are seen the prostrate Nile or Rhine;  A small Euphrates thro' the piece is roll'd,   And little eagles wave their wings in gold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59607]]></link><description><![CDATA[Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63695]]></link><description><![CDATA[By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each story I've written starts out as a vague idea that seems to be going nowhere, then suddenly materializes as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each story I've written starts out as a vague idea that seems to be going nowhere, then suddenly materializes as a completed concept. It almost seems like a discovery, as if the story was always there. The few elements I start out with are actually clues. If I figure out what they mean, I can discover the story that's waiting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like the stain'd web that whitens in the sun, Grow pure by being purely shone upon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5794]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like the stain'd web that whitens in the sun, Grow pure by being purely shone upon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who doubting tyranny, and fainting under Fortune's false lottery, desperately run  To death, for dread of death; that soul's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58234]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who doubting tyranny, and fainting under Fortune's false lottery, desperately run  To death, for dread of death; that soul's most stout,   That, bearing all mischance, dares last it out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4326]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4326</guid></item></channel></rss>