<?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[The opposite of love is apathy, and hate is really the same as love. If you're so consumed by hatred ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45126]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opposite of love is apathy, and hate is really the same as love. If you're so consumed by hatred for someone, you might as well be loving them, because you're thinking about them for the same amount of time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must see your goals clearly and specifically before you can set out for them. Hold them in your mind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22019]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must see your goals clearly and specifically before you can set out for them. Hold them in your mind until they become second nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the kingdome of a cheater the wallet is carried before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49547]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the kingdome of a cheater the wallet is carried before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who praises everybody, praises nobody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48025]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who praises everybody, praises nobody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21040]]></link><description><![CDATA[As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who will follow precedent, but never create one, is merely an obvious example of the routineer. You find ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46252]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who will follow precedent, but never create one, is merely an obvious example of the routineer. You find him desperately numerous in the civil service, in the official bureaus. To him government is something given as unconditionally, as absolutely as ocean or hill. He goes on winding the tape that he finds. His imagination has rarely extricated itself from under the administrative machine to gain any sense of what a human, temporary contraption the whole affair is. What he thinks is the heavens above him is nothing but the roof.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59152]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot hide an eele in a sacke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50130]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot hide an eele in a sacke.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15008]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them secretly to give to you. That almost always involves a betrayal of trust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A recent conversation: Dubya: Look at the clock, time is racing! Cheney: That's the second hand, George. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8886]]></link><description><![CDATA[A recent conversation: Dubya: Look at the clock, time is racing! Cheney: That's the second hand, George.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39488]]></link><description><![CDATA[Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now my soul hath elbow-room. -King John. Act v. Sc. 7. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now my soul hath elbow-room. -King John. Act v. Sc. 7.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets. - Maxims. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46401]]></link><description><![CDATA[Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets. - Maxims.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I bet the main reason the police keep people away from a plane crash is they don't want anybody walking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11753]]></link><description><![CDATA[I bet the main reason the police keep people away from a plane crash is they don't want anybody walking in and lying down in the crash stuff, then, when somebody comes up, act like they just woke up and go, "What was THAT?!".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A house is made of walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19597]]></link><description><![CDATA[A house is made of walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The envious only hate the excellence they cannot reach. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52440]]></link><description><![CDATA[The envious only hate the excellence they cannot reach.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no virtue in being uncritical; nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13429]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no virtue in being uncritical; nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism is only the burying beetle that gets rid of what is dead, and, since the world lives by creative and constructive forces, and not by negation and destruction, it is better to grow up in the company of prophets than of critics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world. •John ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54014]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world. •John Muir   Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed. •William Cowper   No rest is worth anything except the rest that is earned. •Jean Paul   Sundays, quiet islands on the tossing seas of life. •S. W. Duffield  Rest is the sweet sauce of labor. •Plutarch   I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy! •Louise A. Bogan   A friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. •Walter Winchell   One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him. •Chinese Proverb   How beautiful is it to do nothing, and then rest afterward. •Proverb   The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gone--flitted away, Taken the stars from the night and the sun  From the day!   Gone, and a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gone--flitted away, Taken the stars from the night and the sun  From the day!   Gone, and a cloud in my heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36819]]></link><description><![CDATA[One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science does not give us absolute and final certainty. It only gives us assurance within the limits of our mental ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52006]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science does not give us absolute and final certainty. It only gives us assurance within the limits of our mental abilities and the prevailing state of scientific thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The good Lord gave me a brain that works so fast that in one moment I can worry as much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62284]]></link><description><![CDATA[The good Lord gave me a brain that works so fast that in one moment I can worry as much as it would take others a whole year to achieve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children are innocent and love justice, while most adults are wicked and prefer mercy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/656]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children are innocent and love justice, while most adults are wicked and prefer mercy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is infinitely better to transplant a heart than to bury it so it can be devoured by worms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26745]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is infinitely better to transplant a heart than to bury it so it can be devoured by worms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52095]]></link><description><![CDATA[Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Odds life! must one swear to the truth of a song? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43510]]></link><description><![CDATA[Odds life! must one swear to the truth of a song?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise; His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise; His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot see myself as a writer, writing about lovers in Accra because you see, there are so many other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29700]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot see myself as a writer, writing about lovers in Accra because you see, there are so many other problems.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A corrupt judge does not carefully search for the truth. [Lat., Male verum examinat omnis  Corruptus judex.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23501]]></link><description><![CDATA[A corrupt judge does not carefully search for the truth. [Lat., Male verum examinat omnis  Corruptus judex.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46040]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is blood all over him and I'm scared they'll come for him here. If he doesn't get urgent treatment ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36780]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is blood all over him and I'm scared they'll come for him here. If he doesn't get urgent treatment he will die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We think they're very good at protecting people in a crash. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28664]]></link><description><![CDATA[We think they're very good at protecting people in a crash.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A half-truth is a whole lie ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24790]]></link><description><![CDATA[A half-truth is a whole lie]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many have an irresistible itch for writing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many have an irresistible itch for writing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With nearly 20 days until Iraq emerges as a free sovereign state for the first time in more than three ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36814]]></link><description><![CDATA[With nearly 20 days until Iraq emerges as a free sovereign state for the first time in more than three decades, terrorists have increasingly targeted our country's infrastructure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is lighter than the wind? A feather. What is lighter than a feather? Fire.  What lighter than a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61915]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is lighter than the wind? A feather. What is lighter than a feather? Fire.  What lighter than a fire? A woman.   What lighter than a woman? Nothing.    [Lat., Vente quid levius? fulgur. Quid fulgure? flamma     Flamma quid? mulier. Quid mulier? nihil.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some are born mad. Some remain so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21006]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some are born mad. Some remain so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the American women had purple noses and gray lips and their faces were chalk white from terrible powder. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15360]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the American women had purple noses and gray lips and their faces were chalk white from terrible powder. I recognized that the United States could be my life's work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was just too good of an opportunity for him to pass up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33922]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was just too good of an opportunity for him to pass up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When people find a man of the most distinguished abilities as a writer their inferior while he is with them, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60]]></link><description><![CDATA[When people find a man of the most distinguished abilities as a writer their inferior while he is with them, it must be highly gratifying to them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is all very well to be able to write books, but can you waggle your ears? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4508]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is all very well to be able to write books, but can you waggle your ears?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great lords, wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss But cheerly seek how to redress their harms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25583]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great lords, wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss But cheerly seek how to redress their harms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How awestriking. How sublime..that out of muck and mud and dirt and slime God makes lemons and God makes limes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27577]]></link><description><![CDATA[How awestriking. How sublime..that out of muck and mud and dirt and slime God makes lemons and God makes limes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which happens in life is not as important as how you accept it. Walter Brueggeman -Unknown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46085]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which happens in life is not as important as how you accept it. Walter Brueggeman -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us put Germany, so to speak, in the saddle! you will see that she can ride. [Ger., Setzen wir ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17390]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us put Germany, so to speak, in the saddle! you will see that she can ride. [Ger., Setzen wir Deutschland, so zu sagen, in den Sattel! Reiten wird es schon konnen.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why, he that cuts off twenty years of life Cuts off so many years of fearing death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58249]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why, he that cuts off twenty years of life Cuts off so many years of fearing death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The closest to being in control we will ever be is in that moment that we realize we're not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3588]]></link><description><![CDATA[The closest to being in control we will ever be is in that moment that we realize we're not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3588</guid></item></channel></rss>