<?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[Trying to make someone fall in love with you is about as pointless as trying to control who you fall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trying to make someone fall in love with you is about as pointless as trying to control who you fall in love with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To go too far is as bad as to fall short. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22739]]></link><description><![CDATA[To go too far is as bad as to fall short.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the mind; and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the mind; and curiosity blends itself, more or less, with all our pleasures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In times of life crisis, whether wild fires or smoldering stress, the first thing I do is go back to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34306]]></link><description><![CDATA[In times of life crisis, whether wild fires or smoldering stress, the first thing I do is go back to basics... am I eating right, am I getting enough sleep, am I getting some physical and mental exercise everyday.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a woman at the begining of all great things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63529]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a woman at the begining of all great things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sixty percent of the fish consumed in Iraq in 1990 was from the marshes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29817]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sixty percent of the fish consumed in Iraq in 1990 was from the marshes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am overwhelmed by the grace and persistence of my people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46203]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am overwhelmed by the grace and persistence of my people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a voice in the Universe urging us to remember our purpose for being on this great Earth. This ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64015]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a voice in the Universe urging us to remember our purpose for being on this great Earth. This is the voice of inspiration, which is within each and every one of us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heaven has a road, but no one travels it; Hell has no gate but men will dig to get there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19100]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heaven has a road, but no one travels it; Hell has no gate but men will dig to get there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Manners with Fortunes, Humours turn with Climes, Tenets with Books, and Principles with Times. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50938]]></link><description><![CDATA[Manners with Fortunes, Humours turn with Climes, Tenets with Books, and Principles with Times.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no clear reasons and I am not going to make one up to explain the recent strengthening of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40854]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no clear reasons and I am not going to make one up to explain the recent strengthening of Epsilon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weeds are shallow-rooted, Suffer them now, and they'll o'ergrow the garden,  And choke the herbs for want of husbandry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51316]]></link><description><![CDATA[Weeds are shallow-rooted, Suffer them now, and they'll o'ergrow the garden,  And choke the herbs for want of husbandry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20496]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58892]]></link><description><![CDATA[But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who thought he'd won The field as certain as a gun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who thought he'd won The field as certain as a gun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Classical, Romantic, and Baroque music, that's what I really like. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Classical, Romantic, and Baroque music, that's what I really like.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16879]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only shame is to have none ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56122]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only shame is to have none]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5674]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thank God for competition. When our competitors upset our plans or outdo our designs, they open infinite possibilities of our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57656]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thank God for competition. When our competitors upset our plans or outdo our designs, they open infinite possibilities of our own work to us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[CLOVER VEILA clover veil..violets the valeneith skies cloudclador when ultravioletsun prevails. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19806]]></link><description><![CDATA[CLOVER VEILA clover veil..violets the valeneith skies cloudclador when ultravioletsun prevails.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61967]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[CONSIDERING THE VOID When I behold the charmof evening skies, their lulling endurance;the patterns of stars with namesof bears and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46793]]></link><description><![CDATA[CONSIDERING THE VOID When I behold the charmof evening skies, their lulling endurance;the patterns of stars with namesof bears and dogs, a swan, a virgin;other planets that the Voyager showed were like and so unlike our own,with all their diverse moons,bright discs, weird rings, and cratered faces;comets with their streaming tailsbent by pressure from our sun;the skyscape of our Milky Wayholding in its shimmering discan infinity of suns(or say a thousand billion);knowing there are holes of darknessgulping mass and even light,knowing that this galaxy of oursis one of multitudesin what we call the heavens,it troubles me. It troubles me.-President Jimmy Carter- (he has written a volume of poetry as well as a novel, The Hornet's Nest,about the Revolutionary War).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66564]]></link><description><![CDATA[How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23725]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's only one way you can fail, and that's to quit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10374]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's only one way you can fail, and that's to quit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Christ at Cana's feast by pow'r divine, Inspir'd cold water, with the warmth of wine,  See! cry'd they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27556]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Christ at Cana's feast by pow'r divine, Inspir'd cold water, with the warmth of wine,  See! cry'd they while, in red'ning tide, it gush'd,   The bashful stream hath seen its God and blush'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have immediate needs such as fixing radio interoperability problems, repayment of local police for guarding airports, firefighter grants, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39482]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have immediate needs such as fixing radio interoperability problems, repayment of local police for guarding airports, firefighter grants, and other homeland security needs that the Congress and president need to act on, ... Funds for these urgent priorities were cut in the 2002 supplemental spending bill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The modern definition of 'racist' is someone who is winning an argument with a liberal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47182]]></link><description><![CDATA[The modern definition of 'racist' is someone who is winning an argument with a liberal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To reprove small faults within due vehemence, is as absurd as if a man should take a great hammer to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16938]]></link><description><![CDATA[To reprove small faults within due vehemence, is as absurd as if a man should take a great hammer to kill a fly on his friend's forehead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad taste is a species of bad morals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58659]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad taste is a species of bad morals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I recognize my limits but when I look around I realise I am not living exactly in a world of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35818]]></link><description><![CDATA[I recognize my limits but when I look around I realise I am not living exactly in a world of giants]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is never too late to turn from the errors of our ways: He who repents of his sins is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53826]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is never too late to turn from the errors of our ways: He who repents of his sins is almost innocent.  [Lat., Nam sera nunquam est ad bonos mores via.   Quem peonitet peccasse, paene est innocens.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2026]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With evil omens from the harbour sails The ill-fated ship that worthless Arnold bears;  God of the southern winds, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59643]]></link><description><![CDATA[With evil omens from the harbour sails The ill-fated ship that worthless Arnold bears;  God of the southern winds, call up thy gales,   And whistle in rude fury round his ears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64151]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale,  The common sun, the air, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45465]]></link><description><![CDATA[The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale,  The common sun, the air, the skies,   To him are open paradise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Julian would learn something) even if he had one foot in the grave. [Lat., Etsi alterum pedem in sepulchro haberem.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18219]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Julian would learn something) even if he had one foot in the grave. [Lat., Etsi alterum pedem in sepulchro haberem.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The high note is not the only thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43530]]></link><description><![CDATA[The high note is not the only thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think meals have any business being deductible. I'm for separation of calories and corporations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5081]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think meals have any business being deductible. I'm for separation of calories and corporations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rousseau had it backwards. We are NOT born free. We are born in the chains of the random and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47216]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rousseau had it backwards. We are NOT born free. We are born in the chains of the random and the reflexive, and are ignorant and unreasonable by simple nature. We must learn to be free, to organize the random and detect the reflexive, to acquire the knowledge of particulars and the powers of reason. The examined life is impossible if we cannot examine, order, classify, define, distinguish, always in minute particulars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Angels fly because they take themselves lightly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22339]]></link><description><![CDATA[Angels fly because they take themselves lightly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Historic in a good sense, not historic in a sense of 'so we dropped bombs on everyone.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Historic in a good sense, not historic in a sense of 'so we dropped bombs on everyone.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prudent people are very happy; 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without it, and shall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17213]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prudent people are very happy; 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without it, and shall retain to my day of Death the Humour of saying what I think. - The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortly Montagu.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12472]]></link><description><![CDATA[The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But, children, you should never let Such angry passions rise;  Your little hands were never made   To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45620]]></link><description><![CDATA[But, children, you should never let Such angry passions rise;  Your little hands were never made   To tear each other's eyes.   - Isaac Watts,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12467]]></link><description><![CDATA[The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had to take a really hard look at transit -- something that's not mandated, but optional. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38544]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had to take a really hard look at transit -- something that's not mandated, but optional.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54174]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54174</guid></item></channel></rss>