<?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[There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53059]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy... what was talent but the art ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64947]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy... what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success breeds confidence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9683]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success breeds confidence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16150]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts it so that it can never again hold quite as much love for her]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53372]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But beyond the bright searchlights of science, Out of sight of the windows of sense,  Old riddles still bid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54837]]></link><description><![CDATA[But beyond the bright searchlights of science, Out of sight of the windows of sense,  Old riddles still bid us defiance,   Old questions of Why and of Whence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9723]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The coward wretch whose hand and heart can bear to torture ought below, Is ever first to quail and start ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10510]]></link><description><![CDATA[The coward wretch whose hand and heart can bear to torture ought below, Is ever first to quail and start from the slightest pain or equal foe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consider that I laboured not for myself only, but for all them that seek learning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consider that I laboured not for myself only, but for all them that seek learning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true Amphitryon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13189]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true Amphitryon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue ofResponsibility on the west coast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22674]]></link><description><![CDATA[I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue ofResponsibility on the west coast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good luck befriend thee, Son; for at thy birth The fairy ladies danced upon the hearth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26019]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good luck befriend thee, Son; for at thy birth The fairy ladies danced upon the hearth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1940]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that makes his bed ill, lies there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49377]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that makes his bed ill, lies there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52337]]></link><description><![CDATA[The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people.  The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like a young eagle, who has lent his plume To fledge the shaft by which he meets his doom,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13097]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like a young eagle, who has lent his plume To fledge the shaft by which he meets his doom,  See their own feathers pluck'd, to wing the dart,   Which rank corruption destines for their heart!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Dutch are a great team, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39056]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Dutch are a great team,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation . . . . ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17179]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation . . . . A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is not something you do when a child dies, ... We need to be talking about this all the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28640]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is not something you do when a child dies, ... We need to be talking about this all the time. .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a great opportunity to learn about other cultures that we have in the area. Come out and get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31260]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a great opportunity to learn about other cultures that we have in the area. Come out and get to know your neighbors because we're afraid of what we don't know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9711]]></link><description><![CDATA[If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that ... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25266]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right now it's just the evaluation process. I have a very supportive family who would like to see me coach ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37640]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right now it's just the evaluation process. I have a very supportive family who would like to see me coach again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would fain die a dry death. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56109]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would fain die a dry death. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why should we fear; and what? The laws? They all are armed in virtue's cause;  And aiming at the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54703]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why should we fear; and what? The laws? They all are armed in virtue's cause;  And aiming at the self-same end,   Satire is always virtue's friend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65311]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Around, around, Companions all, take your ground,  And name the bell with joy profound!   Concordia is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4127]]></link><description><![CDATA[Around, around, Companions all, take your ground,  And name the bell with joy profound!   Concordia is the world we've found    Most meet to express the harmonious sound,     That calls to those in friendship bound.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26765]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved, in a tear of the sisters of Phaeton, so that it seems enshrined ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3909]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved, in a tear of the sisters of Phaeton, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar. It has obtained a worthy reward for its great toils; we may suppose that the bee itself would have desired such a death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43969]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63080]]></link><description><![CDATA[You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say, “I want to see the manager.” ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65747]]></link><description><![CDATA[After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say, “I want to see the manager.”]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66060]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4771]]></link><description><![CDATA[By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instead of sailing off into the sunset, he hopes to sail into the next century. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32803]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instead of sailing off into the sunset, he hopes to sail into the next century.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These loggers are heavily armed, organized groups who are sometimes linked to drug traffickers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36593]]></link><description><![CDATA[These loggers are heavily armed, organized groups who are sometimes linked to drug traffickers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The time we enjoy wasting is usually a good indicator of our real values… The best things in life feel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60361]]></link><description><![CDATA[The time we enjoy wasting is usually a good indicator of our real values… The best things in life feel like we feel when we waste our time!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Going into the match I didn't know he was so good at throwing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Going into the match I didn't know he was so good at throwing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14963]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One's personality can be understood from the people they mingle with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46222]]></link><description><![CDATA[One's personality can be understood from the people they mingle with.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no vice so simple but assumes Some mark of virtue in his outward parts. -The Merchant of Venice. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55592]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no vice so simple but assumes Some mark of virtue in his outward parts. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the age of twenty, any young man should know whether or not he is to be a specialist and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26589]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the age of twenty, any young man should know whether or not he is to be a specialist and just where his tastes lie. By postponing the question we have set on immaturity a premium which controls most American personality to its deathbed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right, you'll probably never do much of anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24808]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right, you'll probably never do much of anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am the miracle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27548]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am the miracle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25021]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very sound or the very foolish imagine otherwise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need to make a change in as many people's lives as possible in their lifetime, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31481]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need to make a change in as many people's lives as possible in their lifetime,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27689]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continuance? - The Colby Essays.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ass and the GrasshopperAn Ass having heard some Grasshoppers chirping, was highly enchanted; and, desiring to possess the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1604]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Ass and the GrasshopperAn Ass having heard some Grasshoppers chirping, was highly enchanted; and, desiring to possess the same charms of melody, demanded what sort of food they lived on to give them such beautiful voices. They replied, The dew. The Ass resolved that he would live only upon dew, and in a short time died of hunger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1604</guid></item></channel></rss>