<?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[One swallowe proveth not that summer is neare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58436]]></link><description><![CDATA[One swallowe proveth not that summer is neare.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We use the outdoor elements to attract the boys to scouting, and when they attend weekly meetings and do community ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39659]]></link><description><![CDATA[We use the outdoor elements to attract the boys to scouting, and when they attend weekly meetings and do community service projects, they don't realize they're learning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then from the neighboring thicket the mockingbird, wildest of singers, Swinging aloft on a willow spray that hung o'er the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then from the neighboring thicket the mockingbird, wildest of singers, Swinging aloft on a willow spray that hung o'er the water.  Shook from his little throat such floods of delirious music,   That the whole air and the woods and the waves seemed silent to listen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to love humanity than to love your neighbor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52341]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to love humanity than to love your neighbor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The key to faith is what we are willing to sacrifice to obtain it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53299]]></link><description><![CDATA[The key to faith is what we are willing to sacrifice to obtain it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let him now speak, or else hereafter for ever hold his peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let him now speak, or else hereafter for ever hold his peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Day hath put on his jacket, and around His burning bosom buttoned it with stars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14253]]></link><description><![CDATA[Day hath put on his jacket, and around His burning bosom buttoned it with stars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See yonder maker of the dead man's bed, The sexton, hoary-headed chronicle,  Of hard, unmeaning face, down which ne'er ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18207]]></link><description><![CDATA[See yonder maker of the dead man's bed, The sexton, hoary-headed chronicle,  Of hard, unmeaning face, down which ne'er stole   A gentle tear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't have any interest in traditional art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3265]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't have any interest in traditional art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60661]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23668]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There have not been any big blips in inflation (so far this year). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34710]]></link><description><![CDATA[There have not been any big blips in inflation (so far this year).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adequate information about the existing environment and about the types of place that it is desirable to make cannot be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31814]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adequate information about the existing environment and about the types of place that it is desirable to make cannot be kept inside one brain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women and foxes, being weak, are distinguished by superior tact. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58552]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women and foxes, being weak, are distinguished by superior tact.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to be killed than frightened to death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10521]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to be killed than frightened to death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46024]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him. [Fr., Qu'on me donne six lignes ecrites de la main du plus honnete homme, j'y trouverai de quoi le faire pendre.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is of no small commendation to manage a little well. To live well in abundance is the praise of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13337]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is of no small commendation to manage a little well. To live well in abundance is the praise of the estate, not of the person. I will study more how to give a good account of my little, than how to make it more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indolence is a delightful but distressing state, we must be doing something to be happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20781]]></link><description><![CDATA[Indolence is a delightful but distressing state, we must be doing something to be happy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As soon Seek roses in December--ice in June,  Hope, constancy in wind, or corn in chaff;   Believe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10729]]></link><description><![CDATA[As soon Seek roses in December--ice in June,  Hope, constancy in wind, or corn in chaff;   Believe a woman or an epitaph,    Or any other thing that's false, before     You trust in critics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48121]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I met with Coach Bowden and he gave me some good information. I believe another year will also give me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35236]]></link><description><![CDATA[I met with Coach Bowden and he gave me some good information. I believe another year will also give me a chance to be a higher draft choice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In England, I'm a horror movie director. In Germany, I'm a filmmaker. In the United States, I'm a bum. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43656]]></link><description><![CDATA[In England, I'm a horror movie director. In Germany, I'm a filmmaker. In the United States, I'm a bum.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stop the mindless wishing that things would be different. Rather than wasting time and emotional and spiritual energy in explaining ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stop the mindless wishing that things would be different. Rather than wasting time and emotional and spiritual energy in explaining why we don't have what we want, we can start to pursue other ways to get it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wonder how many of the people who profess to believe in the leveling ideas of collectivism and egalitarianism really ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47205]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wonder how many of the people who profess to believe in the leveling ideas of collectivism and egalitarianism really just believe that they themselves are good for nothing. I mean, how many leftists are animated by a quite reasonable self-loathing? In their hearts they know that they are not going to become scholars or inventors or industrialists or even ordinary good kind people. So they need a way to achieve that smugness for which the left is so justifiably famous. They need a way to achieve self-esteem without merit. Well, there is politics. In an egalitarian world everything will be controlled by politics, and politics requires no merit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And those who paint 'em truest praise 'em most. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45411]]></link><description><![CDATA[And those who paint 'em truest praise 'em most.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art thou a pen, whose task shall be To drown in ink  What writers think?   Oh, wisely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46011]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art thou a pen, whose task shall be To drown in ink  What writers think?   Oh, wisely write,    That pages white     Be not the worse for ink and thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People kept coming up to our booth asking if this was the knee brace that everyone was talking about! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42582]]></link><description><![CDATA[People kept coming up to our booth asking if this was the knee brace that everyone was talking about!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But ere we could arrive the point proposed, Caesar cried, 'Help me, Cassius, or I sink!' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19170]]></link><description><![CDATA[But ere we could arrive the point proposed, Caesar cried, 'Help me, Cassius, or I sink!']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He made a mistake by going into the ring, but it was his nephew, and this hooligan (Judah) -- that's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30303]]></link><description><![CDATA[He made a mistake by going into the ring, but it was his nephew, and this hooligan (Judah) -- that's what he is, a hooligan -- committed these very flagrant fouls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the will and not the gift makes the giver. [Ger., Denn der Wille  Und nicht die Gabe macht ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17445]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the will and not the gift makes the giver. [Ger., Denn der Wille  Und nicht die Gabe macht den Geber.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And I must bear What is ordained with patience, being aware  Necessity doth front the universe   With ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45711]]></link><description><![CDATA[And I must bear What is ordained with patience, being aware  Necessity doth front the universe   With an invincible gesture.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We brought a very competitive team and thought we could win. People didn't take us seriously in the seeding meeting. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39243]]></link><description><![CDATA[We brought a very competitive team and thought we could win. People didn't take us seriously in the seeding meeting. I think our effort will gain respect for our program.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He hath great neede of a foole, that plaies the foole himselfe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49314]]></link><description><![CDATA[He hath great neede of a foole, that plaies the foole himselfe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the most part he gets all the line calls right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42143]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the most part he gets all the line calls right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We think it's a good step for Afghanistan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40047]]></link><description><![CDATA[We think it's a good step for Afghanistan.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concerning perfect blessed ness which consists in a vision of God. [Lat., Circa beatitudinem perfectam, quae in Dei visione consistit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concerning perfect blessed ness which consists in a vision of God. [Lat., Circa beatitudinem perfectam, quae in Dei visione consistit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16953]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You put fine dishes on your table, Olus, but you always put them on covered. This is ridiculous; in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14073]]></link><description><![CDATA[You put fine dishes on your table, Olus, but you always put them on covered. This is ridiculous; in the same way I could put fine dished on my table.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every human being is the author of his own health or disease. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18906]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weep no more, nor sigh, nor groan, Sorrow calls no time that's gone:  Violets plucked the sweetest rain  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Weep no more, nor sigh, nor groan, Sorrow calls no time that's gone:  Violets plucked the sweetest rain   Makes not fresh nor grow again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I owe my solitude to other people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66453]]></link><description><![CDATA[I owe my solitude to other people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26430]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aldo Leopold, the early 20th century's Henry David Thoreau, said that we should think like a mountain, with a sense ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60359]]></link><description><![CDATA[Aldo Leopold, the early 20th century's Henry David Thoreau, said that we should think like a mountain, with a sense of permanence and a long view. At the beginning of the 21st century, we are at a peak of human power, wealth and information... We need to look back at our wonderful natural and human heritage, and cherish and protect the abundant values to be found there. We need to look out to the sides and see other parts of the world that need our help and can provide good ideas to go forward... We need to look ahead to be certain that our actions of today will make the world a better and richer and more varied place for our grandchildren and their grandchildren.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21491]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God strikes not with both hands, for to the sea he made heavens, and to rivers foords. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49276]]></link><description><![CDATA[God strikes not with both hands, for to the sea he made heavens, and to rivers foords.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2373]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2373</guid></item></channel></rss>