<?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[And soon Their hushing dances languished to a stand,  Like midnight leaves when, as the Zephyrs swoon,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62664]]></link><description><![CDATA[And soon Their hushing dances languished to a stand,  Like midnight leaves when, as the Zephyrs swoon,   All on their drooping stems they sink unfanned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The beauty seems right By force of beauty, and the feeble wrong  Because of weakness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3837]]></link><description><![CDATA[The beauty seems right By force of beauty, and the feeble wrong  Because of weakness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was not part of the U.N. resolution; it was not part of the mandate to go on to Baghdad ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40671]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was not part of the U.N. resolution; it was not part of the mandate to go on to Baghdad and, frankly, if we had gone into Baghdad and pushed Saddam Hussein off, we would have inherited an even bigger mess than the mess we inherited with the refugee problem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I charge thee, fling away ambition: By that sin fell the angels. -King Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56046]]></link><description><![CDATA[I charge thee, fling away ambition: By that sin fell the angels. -King Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more we study the more we discover our ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58053]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not chose to be wrong for the sake of being different. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44964]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not chose to be wrong for the sake of being different.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64594]]></link><description><![CDATA[Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who has only his eyes if he is a painter, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3370]]></link><description><![CDATA[What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who has only his eyes if he is a painter, or his ears if he is a musician, or a lyre at every level of his heart if he is a poet, or, if he is merely a boxer, only his muscle? On the contrary, he is at the same time a political being, constantly alert to the heartrending, burning, or happy events in the world, molding himself in their likeness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth is a dog that must to kennel. He must be whipped, when Lady, the brach, may stand by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51337]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth is a dog that must to kennel. He must be whipped, when Lady, the brach, may stand by the fire and stink.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow. -Anthony J. D'Angelo. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow. -Anthony J. D'Angelo.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common sense hides shame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56144]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common sense hides shame.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They did the little boy turkey named Art... chokeand then served his dead body with artichokes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/266]]></link><description><![CDATA[They did the little boy turkey named Art... chokeand then served his dead body with artichokes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An arrant traitor as any is in the universal world, or in France, or in England! -King Henry V. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55969]]></link><description><![CDATA[An arrant traitor as any is in the universal world, or in France, or in England! -King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 8.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it rejects the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46570]]></link><description><![CDATA[The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38834]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behold, we live through all things,--famine, thirst, Bereavement, pain; all grief and misery,  All woe and sorrow; life inflicts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14668]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behold, we live through all things,--famine, thirst, Bereavement, pain; all grief and misery,  All woe and sorrow; life inflicts its worst   On soul and body,--but we cannot die,    Though we be sick, and tired, and faint, and worn,--     Lo, all things can be borne!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every quarter against West, they're going to come out ready to play. It's a matter of matching their intensity and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every quarter against West, they're going to come out ready to play. It's a matter of matching their intensity and getting the momentum. If you don't come out and play every single play, you slack for even 2 minutes and game's over.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have shot mine arrow o'er the house And hurt my brother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/299]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have shot mine arrow o'er the house And hurt my brother.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can observe a lot just by watching. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44778]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can observe a lot just by watching.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Agreement in likes and dislikes--this, and this only, is what constitutes true friendship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Agreement in likes and dislikes--this, and this only, is what constitutes true friendship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The current immigration system lacks the fundamental understanding of the need for immigrants in this country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28773]]></link><description><![CDATA[The current immigration system lacks the fundamental understanding of the need for immigrants in this country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Durability is part of what makes a great athlete. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Durability is part of what makes a great athlete.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No historian can take part with--or against--the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19481]]></link><description><![CDATA[No historian can take part with--or against--the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human race should merely be a fact to be grouped with other vital statistics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reinventing the wheel is sometimes the right thing, when the result is the radial tire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53241]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reinventing the wheel is sometimes the right thing, when the result is the radial tire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10431]]></link><description><![CDATA[The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always believed that astrophysics should be the extrapolation of laboratory physics, that we must begin from the present ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36280]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always believed that astrophysics should be the extrapolation of laboratory physics, that we must begin from the present universe and work our way backward to progressively more remote and uncertain epochs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AWB was prepared to deceive the U.N. as to the true nature of its contractual relationship with the Iraqi Grain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38432]]></link><description><![CDATA[AWB was prepared to deceive the U.N. as to the true nature of its contractual relationship with the Iraqi Grain Board.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death will be a great relief. No more interviews. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64589]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I am delivering my very best, then that is when I feel successful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/827]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I am delivering my very best, then that is when I feel successful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you have to do all the more crappy jobs before, you appreciate all the good work that comes out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65308]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you have to do all the more crappy jobs before, you appreciate all the good work that comes out of that. There are many girls who immediately have a top model career, and there are lots of models who are doing things that aren't as exciting as doing big campaigns and beautiful magazines.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gold begets in brethren hate; Gold in families debate;  Gold does friendship separate;   Gold does civil wars ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17772]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gold begets in brethren hate; Gold in families debate;  Gold does friendship separate;   Gold does civil wars create.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought of the (Academy) bus, but I don't know what their prices are. Plus the price of gas went ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30620]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought of the (Academy) bus, but I don't know what their prices are. Plus the price of gas went up a lot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find that the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20984]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find that the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it--but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All these indexes reflect the basic obligations of the government in managing society and offering services to the public under ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36624]]></link><description><![CDATA[All these indexes reflect the basic obligations of the government in managing society and offering services to the public under the market economy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When people revolt in a totalitarian society, they rise not against the wickedness of the regime but its weakness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47604]]></link><description><![CDATA[When people revolt in a totalitarian society, they rise not against the wickedness of the regime but its weakness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To illustrate the difference between the innovator and the dull crowd of routinists who cannot even imagine that any improvement ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52022]]></link><description><![CDATA[To illustrate the difference between the innovator and the dull crowd of routinists who cannot even imagine that any improvement is possible, we need only refer to a passage in Engel's most famous book. Here, in 1878, Engels apodictically announced that military weapons are "now so perfected that no further progress of any revolutionizing influence is any longer possible." Henceforth "all further [technological] progress is by and large indifferent for land warfare. The age of evolution is in this regard essentially closed." This complacent conclusion shows in what the achievement of the innovator consists: he accomplishes what other people believe to be unthinkable and unfeasible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the media that won't move on, ... You just want to say, 'Come on, people! Turn a page!' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37788]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the media that won't move on, ... You just want to say, 'Come on, people! Turn a page!']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Voting is the least arduous of a citizen's duties. He has the prior and harder duty of making up his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8794]]></link><description><![CDATA[Voting is the least arduous of a citizen's duties. He has the prior and harder duty of making up his mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58104]]></link><description><![CDATA[The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.   - Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have nothing to declare but my genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17296]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have nothing to declare but my genius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5127]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quality of mercy is not strained; It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27328]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quality of mercy is not strained; It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blessed- It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They would talk of nothing but high life and high-lived company, with other fashionable topics, such as pictures, taste, Shakespeare, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10092]]></link><description><![CDATA[They would talk of nothing but high life and high-lived company, with other fashionable topics, such as pictures, taste, Shakespeare, and the musical glasses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A myth is, of course, not a fairy story. It is the presentation of facts belonging to one category in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43613]]></link><description><![CDATA[A myth is, of course, not a fairy story. It is the presentation of facts belonging to one category in the idioms appropriate to another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44248]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who are you wearing? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who are you wearing?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows. -The Tempest. Act ii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows. -The Tempest. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46512]]></link><description><![CDATA[The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46512</guid></item></channel></rss>