<?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[The opposite of love is not hate, it 's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it\'s indifference. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65466]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opposite of love is not hate, it 's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it\'s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it 's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it\'s indifference.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just as the felon condemn'd to die-- With a very natural loathing--  Leaving the sheriff to dream of ropes, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50161]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just as the felon condemn'd to die-- With a very natural loathing--  Leaving the sheriff to dream of ropes,   From his gloomy cell in a vision elopes,    To caper on sunny greens and slopes,     Instead of the dance upon nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Adam dalfe and Eve spane So spire if thou may spede,  Where was then the pride of man, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62113]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Adam dalfe and Eve spane So spire if thou may spede,  Where was then the pride of man,   That nowe merres his mede?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Open confession is good for the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9661]]></link><description><![CDATA[Open confession is good for the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[FINANCE, n. The art or science of managing revenues and resources for the best advantage of the manager. The pronunciation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15678]]></link><description><![CDATA[FINANCE, n. The art or science of managing revenues and resources for the best advantage of the manager. The pronunciation of this word with the i long and the accent on the first syllable is one of America's most precious discoveries and possessions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64557]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...mammalian embryos, regardless of their sex chromosome constitutions, have an inherent tendency to develop the female phenotype; the mammalian male ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56841]]></link><description><![CDATA[...mammalian embryos, regardless of their sex chromosome constitutions, have an inherent tendency to develop the female phenotype; the mammalian male is essentially a female that has been exposed to androgenic steroid hormones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15980]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come. -Rabindranath Tagore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let a smile be your umbrella, and you'll end up with a face full of rain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56665]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let a smile be your umbrella, and you'll end up with a face full of rain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think we're going to see jobs collapse or disappear. There is a bit of fear in the air ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40342]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think we're going to see jobs collapse or disappear. There is a bit of fear in the air with what's been going on with oil prices and the hurricane that there's going to be some kind of collapse. But I think this economy is resilient.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Busy bees chasedthe bloom chasteThough they crawled on herclothesher petals unfoldedand those held closestill ever faithful to the sunis the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Busy bees chasedthe bloom chasteThough they crawled on herclothesher petals unfoldedand those held closestill ever faithful to the sunis the everpure roseWhether her hueis violet or roseWhether she growsin freedom or rowsever to God in waves arosethe love perfumefrom the heart of the rose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yesterday the greatest question was decided which was ever debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yesterday the greatest question was decided which was ever debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that those United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People begin to gain weight as they become older. It's only natural that they gain weight if they eat the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39651]]></link><description><![CDATA[People begin to gain weight as they become older. It's only natural that they gain weight if they eat the same amount of food as they did when they were young. They need to know that their basal metabolic rate decreases with age. Gaining weight means not only increasing the amount of subcutaneous fat in the body, but visceral as well, and this is the major factor in lifestyle-related diseases.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world does not pay for what a person knows. But it pays for what a person does with what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13530]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world does not pay for what a person knows. But it pays for what a person does with what he knows. -Laurence Lee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43774]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, yes, the sea is still and deep, All things within its bosom sleep!  A single step, and all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, yes, the sea is still and deep, All things within its bosom sleep!  A single step, and all is o'er,   A plunge, a bubble, and no more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where's the coward that would not dare To fight for such a land? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where's the coward that would not dare To fight for such a land?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Cyril & Methodius, Missionaries to the Slavs, 869 & 885 Commemoration of Valentine, Martyr at Rome, c.269 I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Cyril & Methodius, Missionaries to the Slavs, 869 & 885 Commemoration of Valentine, Martyr at Rome, c.269 I see the wrong that round me lies,  I feel the guilt within; I hear, with groan and travail-cries,  The world confess its sin. Yet, in the maddening maze of things,  And tossed by storm and flood, To one fixed trust my spirit clings  I know that God is good!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7228</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[Life is a song. Love is the music. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43446]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a song. Love is the music.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't ever let anybody teach you to think; it is the curse of the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't ever let anybody teach you to think; it is the curse of the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9343]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I find a film dull, I find it infinitely more entertaining to watch the scratches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43356]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I find a film dull, I find it infinitely more entertaining to watch the scratches.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord, grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28158]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord, grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to hide the bodies of those I had to kill because they pissed me off.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And ours is a business that requires discipline and focus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64393]]></link><description><![CDATA[And ours is a business that requires discipline and focus.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power forgood or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21317]]></link><description><![CDATA[Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power forgood or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. Thisis simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what hepretends to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...When we're two balloons, and together our direction is up, chances are we've found the right person. Our soulmate is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3711]]></link><description><![CDATA[...When we're two balloons, and together our direction is up, chances are we've found the right person. Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A grownup is a child with layers on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18375]]></link><description><![CDATA[A grownup is a child with layers on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A farmer travelling with his load Picked up a horseshoe on the road,  And nailed if fast to his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26011]]></link><description><![CDATA[A farmer travelling with his load Picked up a horseshoe on the road,  And nailed if fast to his barn door,   That luck might down upon him pour;    That every blessing known in life     Might crown his homestead and his wife,      And never any kind of harm       Descend upon his growing farm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey "people." People say different things: so do instincts. Our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey "people." People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war.... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest....]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a brunette, I had previously been this serious actress. Then I became a blonde and got to play a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40919]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a brunette, I had previously been this serious actress. Then I became a blonde and got to play a completely different, comic role.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knew him tyrannous; and tyrants' fears Decrease not, but grow faster than the years;  And should he doubt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59976]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew him tyrannous; and tyrants' fears Decrease not, but grow faster than the years;  And should he doubt it, as no doubt he doth,   That I should open to the list'ning air    How many worthy princes' bloods were shed     To keep his bed of blackness unlaid ope,      To lop that doubt, he'll fill this land with arms       And make pretense of wrong that I have done him;        When all, for mine, if I may call offense,         Must feel war's blow, who spares not innocence;          Which love to all, of which thyself art one,           Who now reproved'st me for't--]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Race, what is that? Race is a competition, somebody winning and somebody losing. . . . Blood doesn't run in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Race, what is that? Race is a competition, somebody winning and somebody losing. . . . Blood doesn't run in races! Come on!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You do whatever you can either to maintain an edge or to get an edge and for men now, it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42564]]></link><description><![CDATA[You do whatever you can either to maintain an edge or to get an edge and for men now, it's not like you can just rest on your laurels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Al Jolson was one of the greatest entertainers who ever lived. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Al Jolson was one of the greatest entertainers who ever lived.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/624]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exaggerated self-importance is deemed an individual fault, but a racial virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Exaggerated self-importance is deemed an individual fault, but a racial virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[However human, envy is certainly not one of the sources of discontent that a free society can eliminate. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52012]]></link><description><![CDATA[However human, envy is certainly not one of the sources of discontent that a free society can eliminate. It is probably one of the essential conditions for the preservation of such a society that we do not countenance envy, not sanction its demands by camouflaging it as social justice, but treat it, in the words of John Stuart Mill, as "the most anti-social and evil of all passions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are in the midst of a great transition from narrow nationalism to international partnership. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43702]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are in the midst of a great transition from narrow nationalism to international partnership.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pitchers today are only expected to pitch into the sixth inning. I read where a pitcher pitched deep into the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pitchers today are only expected to pitch into the sixth inning. I read where a pitcher pitched deep into the sixth inning. Isn't that something? Deep into the sixth inning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To reprove small faults within due vehemence, is as absurd as if a man should take a great hammer to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16938]]></link><description><![CDATA[To reprove small faults within due vehemence, is as absurd as if a man should take a great hammer to kill a fly on his friend's forehead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[... perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than shocked. Thanks to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46075]]></link><description><![CDATA[... perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than shocked. Thanks to Maria Marquis -Pearl S. Buck.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The king of France with twenty thousand men Went up the hill, and then came down again:  The king ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57125]]></link><description><![CDATA[The king of France with twenty thousand men Went up the hill, and then came down again:  The king of Spain with twenty thousand more   Climbed the same hill the French had climbed before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27953]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pray with your intelligence. Bring things to God that you have thought out and think them out again with Him. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6634]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pray with your intelligence. Bring things to God that you have thought out and think them out again with Him. That is the secret of good judgment. Repeatedly place your pet opinions and prejudices before God. He will surprise you by showing you that the best of them need refining and some the purification of destruction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the beauty of what you love be what you do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66786]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66786</guid></item></channel></rss>