<?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[Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62437]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He decried that any wouldadd another hue unto the rainbowyet we would ope tosaffron and jadeand pink and roseand olive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60447]]></link><description><![CDATA[He decried that any wouldadd another hue unto the rainbowyet we would ope tosaffron and jadeand pink and roseand olive and tanscarlet and indigos***the quote is from Shakespeare's King John.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mode in which the inevitable comes to pass is through effort. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59897]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mode in which the inevitable comes to pass is through effort.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A leader may symbolize and express what is best in people, like Pericles, or what is worst, like Hitler, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24453]]></link><description><![CDATA[A leader may symbolize and express what is best in people, like Pericles, or what is worst, like Hitler, but he cannot successfully express what is only in his heart and not in theirs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prison'd in a parlour snug and small, Like bottled wasps upon a southern wall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prison'd in a parlour snug and small, Like bottled wasps upon a southern wall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the privilege of genius that to it life never grows commonplace as to the rest of us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17346]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the privilege of genius that to it life never grows commonplace as to the rest of us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh Martin Sometimes your voice was the thunder..Sometimes it was the falling rain. Always it burst our hearts asunderand made ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18356]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh Martin Sometimes your voice was the thunder..Sometimes it was the falling rain. Always it burst our hearts asunderand made them vibrate.. empathic in pain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exclusive property is a theft against nature. [Fr., La propriete exclusive est un vol dans la nature.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Exclusive property is a theft against nature. [Fr., La propriete exclusive est un vol dans la nature.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61207]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is the art of never holding in your mind the memory of any unpleasant thing that has passed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18664]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is the art of never holding in your mind the memory of any unpleasant thing that has passed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee begins to die, that quits his desires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49424]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee begins to die, that quits his desires.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the results of the team are indicative of decisions that were made by the board two years ago. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41797]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the results of the team are indicative of decisions that were made by the board two years ago.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With the proper revisions, this bill will support the important work that charitable organizations do in every community in our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33559]]></link><description><![CDATA[With the proper revisions, this bill will support the important work that charitable organizations do in every community in our country. It will also advance ethical conduct within the charitable community.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I went on a diet, swore off drinking and heavy eating, and in fourteen days I lost two weeks ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12209]]></link><description><![CDATA[I went on a diet, swore off drinking and heavy eating, and in fourteen days I lost two weeks]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man always travels along precipices. His truest obligation is to keep his balance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3686]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man always travels along precipices. His truest obligation is to keep his balance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17231]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This inescapable duty to observe oneself: if someone else is observing me, naturally I have to observe myself too; if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44780]]></link><description><![CDATA[This inescapable duty to observe oneself: if someone else is observing me, naturally I have to observe myself too; if none observe me, I have to observe myself all the closer]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66306]]></link><description><![CDATA[The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8009]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've been monitoring the situation. And now that the settlement is approved, we want to move forward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39770]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've been monitoring the situation. And now that the settlement is approved, we want to move forward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63433]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Performed to a T. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51060]]></link><description><![CDATA[Performed to a T.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60901]]></link><description><![CDATA[The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But whether on the scaffold high, Or in the battle's van,  The fittest place where man can die  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11177]]></link><description><![CDATA[But whether on the scaffold high, Or in the battle's van,  The fittest place where man can die   Is where he dies for man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had this dream with CBS about promoting this type of music to people who did not know about it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35223]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had this dream with CBS about promoting this type of music to people who did not know about it and we thought the best way to do that was in English,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ye gentlemen of England That live at home at ease,  Ah! little do you think upon   The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44006]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ye gentlemen of England That live at home at ease,  Ah! little do you think upon   The dangers of the seas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66891]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more honesty a man has the less he affects the air of a saint. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50546]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more honesty a man has the less he affects the air of a saint.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life, and are attached to the duties, yet escape ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life, and are attached to the duties, yet escape the harder blows, make acute and balanced observers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You never know where the limit will be. These are sacred places and really shouldn't be opened to this kind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34601]]></link><description><![CDATA[You never know where the limit will be. These are sacred places and really shouldn't be opened to this kind of activity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should fight terror, by all means, but not at the cost of cutting off any chance of talks with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29093]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should fight terror, by all means, but not at the cost of cutting off any chance of talks with the pragmatists.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone needs to stop saying 'I'm a Republican' or 'I'm a Democrat' and just be good Christians. But don't worry, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36323]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone needs to stop saying 'I'm a Republican' or 'I'm a Democrat' and just be good Christians. But don't worry, the Gulf Coast is going to be rebuilt, and it's going to be great. God works in mysterious ways.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a strong suspicion . . . that much that passes for constant love is a golded- up moment ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58420]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a strong suspicion . . . that much that passes for constant love is a golded- up moment walking in its sleep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They know who keep a broken tryst, Till something from the Spring be missed  We have not truly known ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57799]]></link><description><![CDATA[They know who keep a broken tryst, Till something from the Spring be missed  We have not truly known the Spring.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For five years I worked at the [Commerce Department] and did econometric modeling, and you could never get these numbers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40739]]></link><description><![CDATA[For five years I worked at the [Commerce Department] and did econometric modeling, and you could never get these numbers to load into consumption numbers. They're not leading indicators or coincident indicators. They don't tell you a lot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we define pornography as any message from any communication medium that is intended to arouse sexual excitement, then it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47734]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we define pornography as any message from any communication medium that is intended to arouse sexual excitement, then it is clear that most advertisements are covertly pornographic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell me, shepherds, have you seen My Flora pass this way?  In shape and feature Beauty's queen,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell me, shepherds, have you seen My Flora pass this way?  In shape and feature Beauty's queen,   In pastoral array.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25811]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Teresa of Avila, Mystic, Teacher, 1582   We shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Teresa of Avila, Mystic, Teacher, 1582   We shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring to know God; for, beholding His greatness, we realize our own littleness; His purity shows us our foulness; and by meditating upon His humility we find how very far we are from being humble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When love becomes labored we welcome an act of infidelity towards ourselves to free us from fidelity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20808]]></link><description><![CDATA[When love becomes labored we welcome an act of infidelity towards ourselves to free us from fidelity]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20808</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 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15958]]></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/15958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His form had yet not lost All his original brightness, not appear'd  Less than arch-angel ruined, and th' excess ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12155]]></link><description><![CDATA[His form had yet not lost All his original brightness, not appear'd  Less than arch-angel ruined, and th' excess   Of glory obscured.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not worry about holding high position; worry rather about playingyour proper role. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not worry about holding high position; worry rather about playingyour proper role.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Society is like a lawn where every roughness is smoothed, every bramble eradicated, and where the eye is delighted by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57002]]></link><description><![CDATA[Society is like a lawn where every roughness is smoothed, every bramble eradicated, and where the eye is delighted by the smiling verdure of a velvet surface.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look at us, said the violets blooming at her feet, all last winter we slept in the seeming death but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43876]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look at us, said the violets blooming at her feet, all last winter we slept in the seeming death but at the right time God awakened us, and here we are to comfort you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lessons of history? There are four: The bee fertilizes the flower it robs; whom the gods would destroy they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19447]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lessons of history? There are four: The bee fertilizes the flower it robs; whom the gods would destroy they first make mad with power; the mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceeding small; when it is dark enough, you can see the stars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19447</guid></item></channel></rss>