<?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[Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27844]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do nothing twice over. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do nothing twice over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Criticism is easy, and art is difficult. [Fr., La critique est aisee, et l'art est difficile.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Criticism is easy, and art is difficult. [Fr., La critique est aisee, et l'art est difficile.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue alone is happiness below. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue alone is happiness below.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is God's joke on us. It's our mission to figure out the punch line. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is God's joke on us. It's our mission to figure out the punch line.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Style! style! why, all writers will tell you that it is the very thing which can least of all be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58095]]></link><description><![CDATA[Style! style! why, all writers will tell you that it is the very thing which can least of all be changed. A man's style is nearly as much a part of him as his physiognomy, his figure, the throbbing of this pulse,--in short, as any part of his being is at least subjected to the action of the will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66248]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The person of wisdom is the person of years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1807]]></link><description><![CDATA[The person of wisdom is the person of years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance. -Shakespeare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1889]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance. -Shakespeare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have any-after all, most people are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60092]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have any-after all, most people are unhappy, don't you think?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give me a child for the first seven years, and you may do what you like with him afterwards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5960]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give me a child for the first seven years, and you may do what you like with him afterwards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano,— A stage, where every man must play a part; And mine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55542]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano,— A stage, where every man must play a part; And mine a sad one. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's improved my physical strength, and I'm getting a lot better. There's not as much frustration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34767]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's improved my physical strength, and I'm getting a lot better. There's not as much frustration.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, I suppose I can give your career a bit of a leg-up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, I suppose I can give your career a bit of a leg-up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The future starts today, not tomorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66585]]></link><description><![CDATA[The future starts today, not tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things went very well for us today. It was a great meet and we had a lot of breakthroughs. To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32752]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things went very well for us today. It was a great meet and we had a lot of breakthroughs. To compete strong against teams that are in the top 20, as well as professional athletes, is great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32752</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[Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16724]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil like bales unopen'd to the sun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51866]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil like bales unopen'd to the sun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65490]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65490</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[Associate with people in such a manner, that they weep for you when you die and long for you if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Associate with people in such a manner, that they weep for you when you die and long for you if you are alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1074]]></link><description><![CDATA[Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63356]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great poet has seldom sung of lawfully wedded happiness, but of free and secret love; and in this respect, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26440]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great poet has seldom sung of lawfully wedded happiness, but of free and secret love; and in this respect, too the time is coming when there will no longer be one standard of morality for poetry and another for life. To anyone tender of conscience, the ties formed by a free connection are stronger than the legal ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light What so proudly we hailed as the twilight's last gleaming? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16136]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light What so proudly we hailed as the twilight's last gleaming?  Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight   O'er the ramplarts we watched were so gallantly streaming?    And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,     Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.      Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave       O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The master in the art of living makes little distinction between hiswork and his play, his labor and his leisure, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21089]]></link><description><![CDATA[The master in the art of living makes little distinction between hiswork and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, hisinformation and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knowswhich is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever hedoes, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To himhe's always doing both.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You would give up your career if you lost your voice for good, or if the impresarios stopped calling, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5254]]></link><description><![CDATA[You would give up your career if you lost your voice for good, or if the impresarios stopped calling, or the audiences stopped coming. But as long as those things are there, I don't plan to stop. There is nothing that makes me feel better than to be with my public.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37511]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think a man's duty is to find out where the truth is, or if he cannot, at least to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12619]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think a man's duty is to find out where the truth is, or if he cannot, at least to take the best possible human doctrine and the hardest to disprove, and to ride on this like a raft over the waters of life]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My father, now in heaven, is a keeper of the birds. And his eye is on his sparrow ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48508]]></link><description><![CDATA[My father, now in heaven, is a keeper of the birds. And his eye is on his sparrow]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context -- a chair in a room, a room ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9552]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context -- a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan. - "Time", July 2, 1956.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52797]]></link><description><![CDATA[True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art thou the topmost apple The gathers could reach,  Reddening on the bough?   Shall I not take ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2942]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art thou the topmost apple The gathers could reach,  Reddening on the bough?   Shall I not take thee?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only good copies are those which exhibit the defects of bad originals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45424]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only good copies are those which exhibit the defects of bad originals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41051]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have information from the Russian side that repair works at the pipeline are complete and that gas started flowing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35649]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have information from the Russian side that repair works at the pipeline are complete and that gas started flowing into the pipeline this morning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quicker we get about the business of reducing our reliance on oil the better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44905]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quicker we get about the business of reducing our reliance on oil the better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are in bondage to the law so that we might be free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24746]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are in bondage to the law so that we might be free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And still the Raven, never flitting, Still is sitting, still is sitting  On the pallid bust of Pallas  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52982]]></link><description><![CDATA[And still the Raven, never flitting, Still is sitting, still is sitting  On the pallid bust of Pallas   Just above my chamber door;    And his eyes have all the seeming     Of a demon's that is dreaming,      And the lamplight o'er him streaming       Throws his shadow on the floor,        And my soul from out that shadow,         That lies floating on the floor,          Shall be lifted--nevermore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm going to be a vice president very much like George Bush was. He proved to be a very effective ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47083]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm going to be a vice president very much like George Bush was. He proved to be a very effective vice president, perhaps the most effective we've had in a couple of hundred years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of woman the very ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43717]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of woman the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pentecost Feast of Barnabas the Apostle Let songs of praises fill the sky!  Christ, our ascended Lord, Sends down ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pentecost Feast of Barnabas the Apostle Let songs of praises fill the sky!  Christ, our ascended Lord, Sends down his Spirit from on high,  According to his word. The Spirit by his heavenly breath,  New life creates within: He quickens sinners from the death  Of trespasses and sin. The things of Christ the Spirit takes,  And shows them unto men; The fallen soul his temple makes,  God's image stamps again Come, Holy Spirit, from above,  With thy celestial fire: Come, and with flames of zeal and love  Our hearts and tongues inspire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will please though ten times repeated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50287]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will please though ten times repeated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/645]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17566]]></link><description><![CDATA[True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.--Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,--loses horse ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/669]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.--Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,--loses horse and mule. [Fr., Qui ne s'adventure n'a cheval ny mule, ce dist Salomon.--Qui trop, dist Echephron, s'adventure--perd cheval et mule, respondit Malcon.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He does not possess wealth that allows it to possess him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61461]]></link><description><![CDATA[He does not possess wealth that allows it to possess him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[HeÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â„Â¢s not a raw kind of talent. HeÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â„Â¢s got some sophistication to his basketball game, and I think he will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39422]]></link><description><![CDATA[HeÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â„Â¢s not a raw kind of talent. HeÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â„Â¢s got some sophistication to his basketball game, and I think he will progress quickly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39422</guid></item></channel></rss>