<?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://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[He likes the poor things of the world the best, I would not, therefore, if I could be rich.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5140]]></link><description><![CDATA[He likes the poor things of the world the best, I would not, therefore, if I could be rich.  It pleases him t stoop for buttercups.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the law is quite stupid because nobody follows it. I'll take a full car if I need to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34515]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the law is quite stupid because nobody follows it. I'll take a full car if I need to otherwise I usually just have about one or two people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No Church-yard is so handsom, that a man would desire straight to bee buried there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49648]]></link><description><![CDATA[No Church-yard is so handsom, that a man would desire straight to bee buried there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The acquiring of culture is the development of an avid hunger for knowledge and beauty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57019]]></link><description><![CDATA[The acquiring of culture is the development of an avid hunger for knowledge and beauty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The course of Nature seems a course of Death, And nothingness the whole substantial thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43787]]></link><description><![CDATA[The course of Nature seems a course of Death, And nothingness the whole substantial thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the hawk is wont to pursue the trembling doves. [Lat., Ut solet accipiter trepidas agitare columbas.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12807]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the hawk is wont to pursue the trembling doves. [Lat., Ut solet accipiter trepidas agitare columbas.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The beauteous pansies rise In purple, gold, and blue,  With tints of rainbow hue   Mocking the sunset ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45444]]></link><description><![CDATA[The beauteous pansies rise In purple, gold, and blue,  With tints of rainbow hue   Mocking the sunset skies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A vi'let on the meadow grew, That no one saw, that no one knew,  It was a modest flower. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60705]]></link><description><![CDATA[A vi'let on the meadow grew, That no one saw, that no one knew,  It was a modest flower.   A shepherdess pass'd by that way--    Light footed, pretty and so gay;     That way she came,      Softly warbling forth her lay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Direction is more important than speed. We are so busy looking at our speedometers that we forget the milestone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12349]]></link><description><![CDATA[Direction is more important than speed. We are so busy looking at our speedometers that we forget the milestone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is such a thing as taking ourselves and the world too seriously, or at any rate too anxiously. Half ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7647]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is such a thing as taking ourselves and the world too seriously, or at any rate too anxiously. Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain idea that every man is bound to be a critic of life, and to let no day pass without finding some fault with the general order of things, or projecting some plan for its general improvement. And the other half comes from the greedy notion that a man's life does consist, after all, in the abundance of things that he possesseth, and that it is, somehow or other, more respectable and pious to be always at work trying to make a larger living, than it is to lie on your back in the green pastures and beside the still waters, and thank God that you are alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak... Non-violence is hard work. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44623]]></link><description><![CDATA[Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak... Non-violence is hard work. It is the willingness to sacrifice. It is the patience to win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silent icicles, Quietly shining to the quiet moon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20247]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silent icicles, Quietly shining to the quiet moon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We gather strength from sadness and from pain Each time we die we learn to live again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54629]]></link><description><![CDATA[We gather strength from sadness and from pain Each time we die we learn to live again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think I was doing everything right, but sometimes even when you're doing right things it's not working. He just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36700]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think I was doing everything right, but sometimes even when you're doing right things it's not working. He just played too well when he had to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A guy ran a red light like at 2AM, got home fine, no police saw him or anything like that. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17221]]></link><description><![CDATA[A guy ran a red light like at 2AM, got home fine, no police saw him or anything like that. About 3 weeks later he gets a bill from the police department and a photo of his truck running that light. So, like the smart/dumbass he is, he gets cute, lays out some money on the bed(the price of the ticket), takes a photo of it, and sends it in. So a few weeks pass and he gets another letter, this one has a photo of handcuffs. He promptly paid the bill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9663]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52757]]></link><description><![CDATA[You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3681]]></link><description><![CDATA[What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't win if you don't play as a unit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3798]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't win if you don't play as a unit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And will you succeed?Yes! You will indeed!(98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47741]]></link><description><![CDATA[And will you succeed?Yes! You will indeed!(98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not always possible to know what one has learned, or when the dawning will arrive. You will continue ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9499]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not always possible to know what one has learned, or when the dawning will arrive. You will continue to shift, sift, to shake out and to double back. The synthesis that finally occurs can be in the most unexpected place and the most unexpected time. My charge ... is to be alert to the dawnings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If hooking a car battery up to a monkey's brain will help find the cure for AIDS and save somebody's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20453]]></link><description><![CDATA[If hooking a car battery up to a monkey's brain will help find the cure for AIDS and save somebody's life, I have two things to say... the red is positive and the black is negative.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The voice of the world ["Charity begins at home"]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5696]]></link><description><![CDATA[The voice of the world ["Charity begins at home"].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance, Rests never on the track until it reach  Delinquency. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23640]]></link><description><![CDATA[God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance, Rests never on the track until it reach  Delinquency.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Markets were primed for worrying about risk - equities, bonds and currencies too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Markets were primed for worrying about risk - equities, bonds and currencies too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Up springs the lark, Shrill-voiced, and loud, the messenger of morn;  Ere yet the shadows fly, he mounted sings ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24111]]></link><description><![CDATA[Up springs the lark, Shrill-voiced, and loud, the messenger of morn;  Ere yet the shadows fly, he mounted sings   Amid the dawning clouds, and from their haunts    Calls up the tuneful nations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20851]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their pitchers did a very good job of pitching to us and we didn't have the hits, but when you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their pitchers did a very good job of pitching to us and we didn't have the hits, but when you don't have the hits you have to try find another way to win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How blessings brighten as they take their flight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51863]]></link><description><![CDATA[How blessings brighten as they take their flight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54854]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny....']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer... He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46801]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer... He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Betrayal is the only truth that sticks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We only pass when the opportunity rises. Everyone knows we do most of our work on the ground. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29192]]></link><description><![CDATA[We only pass when the opportunity rises. Everyone knows we do most of our work on the ground.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can sell green toothpaste in this country, you can sell opera. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44929]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can sell green toothpaste in this country, you can sell opera.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What right have I to grieve, who have not ceased to wonder? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19066]]></link><description><![CDATA[What right have I to grieve, who have not ceased to wonder?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54011]]></link><description><![CDATA[Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ninety percent of the things we tend to worry about we have no control over, so why worry about them? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ninety percent of the things we tend to worry about we have no control over, so why worry about them?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5969]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Read my lips. No new taxes! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Read my lips. No new taxes!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9379]]></link><description><![CDATA[The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rank and riches are chains of gold, but still chains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rank and riches are chains of gold, but still chains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3433]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Roads are just a suggestion, like pants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9742]]></link><description><![CDATA[Roads are just a suggestion, like pants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I make a call of the hostage takers, in the name of Islam and God the gracious, not to betray ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34959]]></link><description><![CDATA[I make a call of the hostage takers, in the name of Islam and God the gracious, not to betray the principles of Islam.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10309]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a mortal, thou must nourish each of two forebodings--that tomorrow's sunlight will be the last that thou shalt see; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24841]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a mortal, thou must nourish each of two forebodings--that tomorrow's sunlight will be the last that thou shalt see; and that for fifty years wilt live out thy life in ample wealth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fear of infinity is a form of myopia that destroys the possibility of seeing the actual infinite, even though ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20817]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fear of infinity is a form of myopia that destroys the possibility of seeing the actual infinite, even though it in its highest form has created and sustains us, and in its secondary transfinite forms occurs all around us and even inhabits our minds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20817</guid></item></channel></rss>