<?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 words of the wise are as goads, and as nails fastened by the masters of assemblies, which are given ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61743]]></link><description><![CDATA[The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails fastened by the masters of assemblies, which are given from one shepherd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have the capacity to receive messages from the stars and the songs of the night winds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63454]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have the capacity to receive messages from the stars and the songs of the night winds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Fawn and His MotherA young fawn once said to his Mother, You are larger than a dog, and swifter, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1527]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Fawn and His MotherA young fawn once said to his Mother, You are larger than a dog, and swifter, and more used to running, and you have your horns as a defense; why, then, O Mother! do the hounds frighten you so? She smiled, and said: I know full well, my son, that all you say is true. I have the advantages you mention, but when I hear even the bark of a single dog I feel ready to faint, and fly away as fast as I can. No arguments will give courage to the coward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52926]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27275]]></link><description><![CDATA[A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A burthen cheerfully borne becomes light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50701]]></link><description><![CDATA[A burthen cheerfully borne becomes light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54971]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1060]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes people can be a little fickle. They'll go for the newest, hottest thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes people can be a little fickle. They'll go for the newest, hottest thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comedy is tragedy - plus time ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Comedy is tragedy - plus time]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is too small to know and nothing too big to attempt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is too small to know and nothing too big to attempt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I mean, if you lined up 100 writers, you'd get 100 different ways in which they write. There's no right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65366]]></link><description><![CDATA[I mean, if you lined up 100 writers, you'd get 100 different ways in which they write. There's no right way or wrong way to do it; it's whatever your process is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pay me for my work but I don't do it for the money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62175]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pay me for my work but I don't do it for the money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're biggest expense is the money you don't make. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21199]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're biggest expense is the money you don't make.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is said that the propriety even of old Cato often yielded to the exciting influence of the grape. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50285]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is said that the propriety even of old Cato often yielded to the exciting influence of the grape.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In such a night Did Thisbe fearfully o'ertrip the dew,  And saw the lion's shadow ere himself,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26722]]></link><description><![CDATA[In such a night Did Thisbe fearfully o'ertrip the dew,  And saw the lion's shadow ere himself,   And ran dismayed away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60234]]></link><description><![CDATA[It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie. - The Silence of the Sea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25493]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie. - The Silence of the Sea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's going to be the most important hockey game of my life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28408]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's going to be the most important hockey game of my life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17121]]></link><description><![CDATA[The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65475]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1863]]></link><description><![CDATA[The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And that's my religion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15549]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And that's my religion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I sweat. If anything comes easy to me I mistrust it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/442]]></link><description><![CDATA[I sweat. If anything comes easy to me I mistrust it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sellers definitely have to be creative. They need as much help as possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33338]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sellers definitely have to be creative. They need as much help as possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The death-change comes. Death is another life. We bow our heads  At going out, we think, and enter straight ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11174]]></link><description><![CDATA[The death-change comes. Death is another life. We bow our heads  At going out, we think, and enter straight   Another golden chamber of the king's    Larger than this we leave, and lovelier.     And then in shadowy glimpses, disconnect,      The story, flower-like, closes thus its leaves.       The will of God is all in all. He makes,        Destroys, remakes, for His own pleasure, all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the Bush administration is primarily interested in is regime change in the United States, not regime change in Iraq ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4998]]></link><description><![CDATA[What the Bush administration is primarily interested in is regime change in the United States, not regime change in Iraq or South East Asia or the Balkans. A foreign war is a wonderful lollipop to stuff in the mouth of a possibly quarrelsome press.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The government is becoming the family of last resort. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27280]]></link><description><![CDATA[The government is becoming the family of last resort.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A novel is never anything but a philosophy put into images. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25384]]></link><description><![CDATA[A novel is never anything but a philosophy put into images.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength. [Lat., Strangulat inclusus dolor, atque ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength. [Lat., Strangulat inclusus dolor, atque exaestuat intus,  Cogitur et vires multiplicare suas.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Social justice is a semantic fraud from the same stable as People's Democracy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Social justice is a semantic fraud from the same stable as People's Democracy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a terrible way to lose, like that. We definitely played hard as a team, (but) we only got one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33513]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a terrible way to lose, like that. We definitely played hard as a team, (but) we only got one point.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Danny's the last of that generation of players that saved baseball in Seattle. Of the 34 postseason games this team ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Danny's the last of that generation of players that saved baseball in Seattle. Of the 34 postseason games this team has played, Dan Wilson started 30 of them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is stronger than habit. [Lat., Nil consuetudine majus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18527]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is stronger than habit. [Lat., Nil consuetudine majus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's sloppy and it's chaotic, but the degree to which it improves precision in the retrieval process can be quite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30418]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's sloppy and it's chaotic, but the degree to which it improves precision in the retrieval process can be quite significant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3221]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas. Only individuals can do this. A group of individuals may, however, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas. Only individuals can do this. A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on the contrary, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56986]]></link><description><![CDATA[The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on the contrary, it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And that all seas are made calme and still with oile; and therefore the Divers under the water doe spirt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44008]]></link><description><![CDATA[And that all seas are made calme and still with oile; and therefore the Divers under the water doe spirt and sprinkle it abroad with their mouthes because it dulceth and allaieth the unpleasant nature thereof, and carrieth a light with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bed has become a place of luxury to me! I would not exchange it for all the thrones in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3887]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bed has become a place of luxury to me! I would not exchange it for all the thrones in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love cannot remain by itself -- it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action, and that action ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60957]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love cannot remain by itself -- it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action, and that action is service.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm a pedophile. You know that. I'm gonna look. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38673]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm a pedophile. You know that. I'm gonna look.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is only a human invention. I get paid for my work, it's a system of trade, but it's not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is only a human invention. I get paid for my work, it's a system of trade, but it's not my purpose and reason for living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How God ever brings like to like. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9138]]></link><description><![CDATA[How God ever brings like to like.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too many people regard prayer as a formalized routine of words, a refuge for weaklings, or a childish petition for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6901]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too many people regard prayer as a formalized routine of words, a refuge for weaklings, or a childish petition for material things. We sadly undervalue prayer when we conceive it in these terms, just as we should underestimate rain by describing it as something that fills the birdbath in our garden. Properly understood, prayer is a mature activity indispensable to the fullest development of personality -- the ultimate integration of man's highest faculties. Only in prayer do we achieve that complete and harmonious assembly of body, mind and spirit which gives the frail human reed its unshakable strengths.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Two PotsA river carried down in its stream two Pots, one made of earthenware and the other of brass. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1607]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Two PotsA river carried down in its stream two Pots, one made of earthenware and the other of brass. The Earthen Pot said to the Brass Pot, Pray keep at a distance and do not come near me, for if you touch me ever so slightly, I shall be broken in pieces, and besides, I by no means wish to come near you. Equals make the best friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1607</guid></item></channel></rss>