<?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[Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those Rooks, dear, from morning till night, They seem to do nothing but quarrel and fight,  And wrangle and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54414]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those Rooks, dear, from morning till night, They seem to do nothing but quarrel and fight,  And wrangle and jangle, and plunder.   - Dinah Maria Mulock (used pseudonym Mrs. Craik),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am quite unsatisfied by the distinctions between the oral and literate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33133]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am quite unsatisfied by the distinctions between the oral and literate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27218]]></link><description><![CDATA[We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't tell me that worry doesn't do any good. I know better. The things I worry about don't happen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't tell me that worry doesn't do any good. I know better. The things I worry about don't happen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we put all this on the menu, it would look like all the other places where you have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33302]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we put all this on the menu, it would look like all the other places where you have to squint to read it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is not a letter but my arms around you for a brief moment ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19927]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is not a letter but my arms around you for a brief moment]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Authority intoxicates, And makes mere sots of magistrates;  The fumes of it invade the brain,   And make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Authority intoxicates, And makes mere sots of magistrates;  The fumes of it invade the brain,   And make men giddy, proud, and vain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who wants his wedding garments to suit him must allow plenty of time for the measure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48684]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who wants his wedding garments to suit him must allow plenty of time for the measure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65086]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are still committed to calm, but the calm is fading with the wind as a result of the Zionist ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28317]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are still committed to calm, but the calm is fading with the wind as a result of the Zionist violations. When they hit us, we will respond with an earthquake-like reaction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a little bigger this year. I think the teachers are getting more involved and are encouraging their artistic students. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42371]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a little bigger this year. I think the teachers are getting more involved and are encouraging their artistic students. So that's why they're here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Richard was the King and did a tremendous job with fans and for NASCAR, so he was entitled to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30350]]></link><description><![CDATA[Richard was the King and did a tremendous job with fans and for NASCAR, so he was entitled to the 'King' title,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More matter for a May morning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26622]]></link><description><![CDATA[More matter for a May morning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gracefully, gracefully glides our bark On the bosom of Father Thames,  And before her bows the wavelets dark  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4404]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gracefully, gracefully glides our bark On the bosom of Father Thames,  And before her bows the wavelets dark   Break into a thousand gems.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strength and honor are her clothing: and she shall rejoice in time to come. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4192]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strength and honor are her clothing: and she shall rejoice in time to come.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I mumble a lot off-stage, I'm a mumbler. If I'm walking with a friend and I say something, he won't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58629]]></link><description><![CDATA[I mumble a lot off-stage, I'm a mumbler. If I'm walking with a friend and I say something, he won't hear me, he'll say 'What?'. So I'll say it again, but once again he doesn't hear me, so he says 'What?'. But really it's just some insignificant sh*t that I'm saying, but now I'm yelling, 'That tree is far away.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64182]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a flower without perfume. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16269]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a flower without perfume.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead. [Lat., Hominum immortalis est infamia;  Etiam tum vivit, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead. [Lat., Hominum immortalis est infamia;  Etiam tum vivit, cum esse credas mortuam.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best dreams happen when you're awake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62905]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best dreams happen when you're awake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then purg'd with euphrasy and rue The visual nerve, for he had much to see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56256]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then purg'd with euphrasy and rue The visual nerve, for he had much to see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9741]]></link><description><![CDATA[The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The manager with the in basket problem does not yet understand that he must discipline himself to take care of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15774]]></link><description><![CDATA[The manager with the in basket problem does not yet understand that he must discipline himself to take care of activities that fail to excite him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10119]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pessimism never won any battle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21520]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pessimism never won any battle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enjoy your sweat because hard work doesn't guarantee success, but without it you don't have a chance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enjoy your sweat because hard work doesn't guarantee success, but without it you don't have a chance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3238]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44596]]></link><description><![CDATA[War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12282]]></link><description><![CDATA[No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we can't find a central location, I don't think I'd be for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30890]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we can't find a central location, I don't think I'd be for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our fathers used to say that the master's eye was the best fertilizer. [Lat., Majores fertilissium is agro oculum domini ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our fathers used to say that the master's eye was the best fertilizer. [Lat., Majores fertilissium is agro oculum domini esse dixerunt.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the test of a good religion whether you can make a joke about it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56939]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the test of a good religion whether you can make a joke about it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EPIPHANY  The paradox is that a genuine "love for souls" which allows itself to be diverted by fashionable modes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6184]]></link><description><![CDATA[EPIPHANY  The paradox is that a genuine "love for souls" which allows itself to be diverted by fashionable modes into a mere "winning" of them to this or that mutually exclusive version of the "Truth", very often descends to a use of people for more-or-less irrelevant ends (already an evil), and can then so easily degenerate into a total misuse of people for alleged evangelical "results" with the consequent loss of all respect for people and their souls, and the withering of the original concern and love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And from the prayer of Want, and plaint of Woe, O never, never turn away their ear!  Forlorn, in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48039]]></link><description><![CDATA[And from the prayer of Want, and plaint of Woe, O never, never turn away their ear!  Forlorn, in this bleak wilderness below,   Ah! what were man, should Heaven refuse to hear!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've got an invested interest in the school system having three kids in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33915]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've got an invested interest in the school system having three kids in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61949]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The skilful class of flatterers praise the discourse of an ignorant friend and the face of a deformed one. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16161]]></link><description><![CDATA[The skilful class of flatterers praise the discourse of an ignorant friend and the face of a deformed one. [Lat., Adulandi gens prudentissima laudat  Sermonem indocti, faciem deformis amici.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to create a dream. You've got to uphold the dream. If youcan't, go back to the factory or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22180]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to create a dream. You've got to uphold the dream. If youcan't, go back to the factory or go back to the desk.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If things don't go fantastically, you just have to deal with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65306]]></link><description><![CDATA[If things don't go fantastically, you just have to deal with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune does not come twice. Misfortune does not come alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62810]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune does not come twice. Misfortune does not come alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us daily. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us daily.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With the addition of Web access to our free package of basic services and the planned acceleration of our highly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31396]]></link><description><![CDATA[With the addition of Web access to our free package of basic services and the planned acceleration of our highly successful subscriber acquisition program, we hope to be providing Web access to more individuals than any ISP or online service other than America Online before too much longer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You would attain to the divine perfection.... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27618]]></link><description><![CDATA[You would attain to the divine perfection....]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Praise be to Nero's Neptune The Titanic sails at dawn  And everybody's shouting   "Which Side Are You ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16077]]></link><description><![CDATA[Praise be to Nero's Neptune The Titanic sails at dawn  And everybody's shouting   "Which Side Are You On?"    And Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot     Fighting in the captain's tower      While calypso singers laugh at them       And fishermen hold flowers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We two parted In silence and tears,  Half broken-hearted   To sever for years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45560]]></link><description><![CDATA[We two parted In silence and tears,  Half broken-hearted   To sever for years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Real life seems to have no plots. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24886]]></link><description><![CDATA[Real life seems to have no plots.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thoughtto be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22762]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thoughtto be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24757]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24757</guid></item></channel></rss>