<?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[Hee that keepes his owne makes warre. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that keepes his owne makes warre.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him. Answer a fool according to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him. Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would the gods had made thee poetical. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55672]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would the gods had made thee poetical. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66683]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soul meets soul on lovers lips. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2103]]></link><description><![CDATA[Soul meets soul on lovers lips.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One might say, for example, that a patient has a kind of St Vitus's dance; a kind of dropsy; a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11234]]></link><description><![CDATA[One might say, for example, that a patient has a kind of St Vitus's dance; a kind of dropsy; a kind of nerve fever; a kind of ague. One would never say, however (to end once and for all the confusion of these names) "He has St. Vitus's dance," "He has nerve fever," "He has dropsy," "He has ague," since there simply are not any fixed, unchanging diseases to be known by such names.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44624]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which reje]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26256]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius-- and a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius-- and a lot of courage- -to move in the opposite direction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm a traditionalist. I have certain values I live by. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32630]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm a traditionalist. I have certain values I live by.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The violets were past their prime, Yet their departing breath  Was sweeter, in the blast of death,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60716]]></link><description><![CDATA[The violets were past their prime, Yet their departing breath  Was sweeter, in the blast of death,   Than all the lavish fragrance of the time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Actors today go into TV, which I don't consider has a lot to do with acting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64925]]></link><description><![CDATA[Actors today go into TV, which I don't consider has a lot to do with acting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moral system of the universe is like a document written in alternate ciphers, which change from line to line. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43100]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moral system of the universe is like a document written in alternate ciphers, which change from line to line.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unless a man or woman has experienced the darkness of the soul he or she can know nothing of that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unless a man or woman has experienced the darkness of the soul he or she can know nothing of that transforming laughter without which no hint of the ultimate reality of the opposites can be faintly intuited.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think she'll be excited when she gets the 3,000. But, seriously, I think it's awesome that she's doing that. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35241]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think she'll be excited when she gets the 3,000. But, seriously, I think it's awesome that she's doing that. For your coach to do something like that to make our senior day special, I am just really thankful that she would go out on a limb to do something like that. When she told the team, I was really surprised and kind of shocked but it just shows the kind of person she is and we really appreciate what she's doing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are the doubles of those whose way Was festal with fruits and flowers;  Body and brain we were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58129]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are the doubles of those whose way Was festal with fruits and flowers;  Body and brain we were sound as they,   But the prizes were not ours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts: but if he will be content to begin ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5450]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts: but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1685]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45500]]></link><description><![CDATA[The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it. -Margaret Fuller.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doing your best means never stop trying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doing your best means never stop trying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Equipment you'll leave at home, you'll need the most. You're always out of film when you'll have the best ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46557]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Equipment you'll leave at home, you'll need the most. You're always out of film when you'll have the best opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world, the flesh, the devil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14297]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world, the flesh, the devil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9044]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This day is called the feast of Crispian: He that outlives this day and comes safe home, Will stand a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55965]]></link><description><![CDATA[This day is called the feast of Crispian: He that outlives this day and comes safe home, Will stand a tip-toe when this day is named, And rouse him at the name of Crispian. -King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great as the preparations were for the dinner, everything was so contrived that not a soul in the house should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great as the preparations were for the dinner, everything was so contrived that not a soul in the house should be kept from the morning service of Thanksgiving in the church.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This, this is misery! the last, the worst, That man can feel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42760]]></link><description><![CDATA[This, this is misery! the last, the worst, That man can feel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vanity keeps persons in favor with themselves who are out of favor with all others ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60364]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vanity keeps persons in favor with themselves who are out of favor with all others]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Price fixing does not represent simply windfall gains and losses to particular groups according to whether the price happens to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15798]]></link><description><![CDATA[Price fixing does not represent simply windfall gains and losses to particular groups according to whether the price happens to be set higher or lower than it would be otherwise. It represents a net lose to the economy as a whole to the extent that many transactions do not take place at all, because the mutually acceptable possibilities have been reduced.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boldness be my friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4463]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boldness be my friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11817]]></link><description><![CDATA[The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is the art of drawing sufficent conclusions from insufficient premises. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24951]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is the art of drawing sufficent conclusions from insufficient premises.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object? -Confucius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25934]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object? -Confucius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My family begins with me, your family ends with you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15165]]></link><description><![CDATA[My family begins with me, your family ends with you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Believe me that it is a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Believe me that it is a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[TV - a clever contraction derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. However, it is our latest medium - we call ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35881]]></link><description><![CDATA[TV - a clever contraction derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. However, it is our latest medium - we call it a medium because nothing's well done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66277]]></link><description><![CDATA[The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46469]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius . . . arises in the natural, aboriginal concern for the conscious unity of all phenomena. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius . . . arises in the natural, aboriginal concern for the conscious unity of all phenomena.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With Congress, every time they make a joke it's a law; and every time they make a law it's a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28060]]></link><description><![CDATA[With Congress, every time they make a joke it's a law; and every time they make a law it's a joke.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A traveler to distant places should make no enemies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59578]]></link><description><![CDATA[A traveler to distant places should make no enemies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She's had many double-doubles. She's a hard post to stop, and a dominating post inside. She's solid for us in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40164]]></link><description><![CDATA[She's had many double-doubles. She's a hard post to stop, and a dominating post inside. She's solid for us in the middle of our zone. She's the best post player in the district.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find it unusual that it is more socially acceptable tocomplain about what you have than it is to ask ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22373]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find it unusual that it is more socially acceptable tocomplain about what you have than it is to ask for what you want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63616]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the same time, they broke into our pastures and turned loose 35 or 40 head of horses. We got ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38668]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the same time, they broke into our pastures and turned loose 35 or 40 head of horses. We got them all back in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See the gold sunshine patching, And streaming and streaking across  The gray-green oaks; and catching,   By its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58281]]></link><description><![CDATA[See the gold sunshine patching, And streaming and streaking across  The gray-green oaks; and catching,   By its soft brown beard, the moss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The earth is mankind's ultimate haven, our blessed terra firma. When it trembles and gives way beneath our feet, it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35764]]></link><description><![CDATA[The earth is mankind's ultimate haven, our blessed terra firma. When it trembles and gives way beneath our feet, it's as though one of God's checks has bounced.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How far that little candle throws its beams; So shines a good deed in a naughty world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51420]]></link><description><![CDATA[How far that little candle throws its beams; So shines a good deed in a naughty world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51420</guid></item></channel></rss>