<?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 do not consider self-expression as important. It's not important as a method of teaching. And it's not important as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39106]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not consider self-expression as important. It's not important as a method of teaching. And it's not important as an aim of any art branch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . inspiration never arrived when you were searching for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40816]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . inspiration never arrived when you were searching for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As ourselves your empires fall, And every kingdom hath a grave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54467]]></link><description><![CDATA[As ourselves your empires fall, And every kingdom hath a grave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase "As pretty as an airport" appear ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23992]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase "As pretty as an airport" appear]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/876]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strike the iron whilst it is hot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strike the iron whilst it is hot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is more frightening than any particular policy or ideology is the widespread habit of disregarding facts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20309]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is more frightening than any particular policy or ideology is the widespread habit of disregarding facts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that everything you do bad comes back to you. So everything that I do that's bad, I'm going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11413]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that everything you do bad comes back to you. So everything that I do that's bad, I'm going to suffer for it. But in my heart, I believe what I'm doing is right. So I feel like I'm going to heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nimbly they seized and secreted their prey, Alive and wriggling in the elastic net,  Which Nature hung beneath their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nimbly they seized and secreted their prey, Alive and wriggling in the elastic net,  Which Nature hung beneath their grasping beaks;   Till, swoln, with captures, the unwieldy burden    Clogg'd their slow flight, as heavily to land,     These mighty hunters of the deep return'd.      There on the cragged cliffs they perch'd at ease,       Gorging their hapless victims one by one;        Then full and weary, side by side, they slept,         Till evening roused them to the chase again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To insist on purity is to baptize instinct, to humanize art, and to deify personality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36188]]></link><description><![CDATA[To insist on purity is to baptize instinct, to humanize art, and to deify personality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They make fun of the way I talk and I give it back to them, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39160]]></link><description><![CDATA[They make fun of the way I talk and I give it back to them,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tact: to lie about others as you would have them lie about you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58551]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tact: to lie about others as you would have them lie about you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come and trip it as ye go, On the light fantastic toe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come and trip it as ye go, On the light fantastic toe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we have to keep the proper perspective on high school sports. Sometimes, sports can seem like a runaway ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31417]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we have to keep the proper perspective on high school sports. Sometimes, sports can seem like a runaway train, so we have to remind our student-athletes that education comes first, and that you have to be a good sport to play and a good citizen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9799]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44336]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64281]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59947]]></link><description><![CDATA[This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. You may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/957]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. You may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9473]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life. - Inaugural Address.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give a clowne your finger, and he will take your hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49263]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give a clowne your finger, and he will take your hand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The morning was as dark and cold as city snow could make it--a dingy whirl at the window; a smoky ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4616]]></link><description><![CDATA[The morning was as dark and cold as city snow could make it--a dingy whirl at the window; a smoky gust through the fire-place; a shadow black as a bear's cave under the table. Nothing in all the cavernous room, loomed really warm or familiar except a glass of stale water, and a vapid, half-eaten grape-fruit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If automobiles had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3544]]></link><description><![CDATA[If automobiles had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63685]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now that I am without you, all is desolate; all that was once so beautiful is dead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are ready to talk, but it is just an exploratory conversation, since Brazil isn't negotiating with the United Kingdom. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31255]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are ready to talk, but it is just an exploratory conversation, since Brazil isn't negotiating with the United Kingdom. The negotiation involves the G-20 (the group of 21 developing countries), Europe, and the United States.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63593]]></link><description><![CDATA[Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've had women who move to the towns I'm living in, just pack up and move there, never even met ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35707]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've had women who move to the towns I'm living in, just pack up and move there, never even met 'em before, 'cause they heard I lived there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm happiest when I'm teaching people; I just love it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33354]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm happiest when I'm teaching people; I just love it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you start getting involved in bond math it gets complicated. (But) if you don't understand how it works you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42197]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you start getting involved in bond math it gets complicated. (But) if you don't understand how it works you should do your homework.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58655]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We journey on in life through varied hazards and misfortunes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51838]]></link><description><![CDATA[We journey on in life through varied hazards and misfortunes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I spoke to Jose Manuel last night and was happy to share this information with him. It is a great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30121]]></link><description><![CDATA[I spoke to Jose Manuel last night and was happy to share this information with him. It is a great tribute to the prime minister and to Portugal that colleagues have expressed such support for him and wish to see him accept this appointment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60896]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all lies, art is the least untrue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all lies, art is the least untrue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sleep... Oh! how I loathe those little slices of death... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sleep... Oh! how I loathe those little slices of death...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17665]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine--everybody drinks water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4612]]></link><description><![CDATA[My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine--everybody drinks water.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wouldn't say that one is technically better than the other, but polymer is in an earlier state of development. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40136]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wouldn't say that one is technically better than the other, but polymer is in an earlier state of development.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we had no reason to go up there to start with there was no weapons of mass destruction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39156]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we had no reason to go up there to start with there was no weapons of mass destruction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have learned long ago to possess my soul in patience and accept the inevitable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27590]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have learned long ago to possess my soul in patience and accept the inevitable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22757]]></link><description><![CDATA[Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19542]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: "President Can't Swim.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the time of year people start shopping for space heaters, but business hasn't been above normal, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30281]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the time of year people start shopping for space heaters, but business hasn't been above normal,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought - particularly for people who cannot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought - particularly for people who cannot remember where they left things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In this fool's paradise, he drank delight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45463]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this fool's paradise, he drank delight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66534]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66534</guid></item></channel></rss>