<?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[It was cold, and he was coughing. A fine cold draught blew over the knoll. He thought of the woman. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61890]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was cold, and he was coughing. A fine cold draught blew over the knoll. He thought of the woman. Now he would have given all he had or ever might have to hold her warm in his arms, both of them wrapped in one blanket, and sleep. All hopes of eternity and all gain from the past he would have given to have her there, to be wrapped warm with him in one blanket, and sleep, only sleep. It seemed the sleep with the woman in his arms was the only necessity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Merciful heaven, Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt  Splits the unwedgeable and gnarled oak   Than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Merciful heaven, Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt  Splits the unwedgeable and gnarled oak   Than the soft myrtle; but man, proud man,    Dressed in a little brief authority,     Most ignorant of what he's most assured      His glassy essence--like an angry ape       Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven        As makes the angels weep; who, with our spleens,         would all themselves laugh mortal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some hearts are hidden, some have not a heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19044]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some hearts are hidden, some have not a heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13457]]></link><description><![CDATA[The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27433]]></link><description><![CDATA[Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At no time was I involved with any negotiations or lobbying of the United Nations with regard to the oil-for-food ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40217]]></link><description><![CDATA[At no time was I involved with any negotiations or lobbying of the United Nations with regard to the oil-for-food program inspection contract. I and others have stated this fact repeatedly. I am not aware of anyone who states otherwise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5916]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16983]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Practice random beauty and senseless acts of love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3819]]></link><description><![CDATA[Practice random beauty and senseless acts of love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is more likely to produce a concussion in the head than a hole in the wall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44125]]></link><description><![CDATA[All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much spends the traveller, more then the abider. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49636]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much spends the traveller, more then the abider.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That, though on pleasure she was bent, She had a frugal mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46700]]></link><description><![CDATA[That, though on pleasure she was bent, She had a frugal mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9628]]></link><description><![CDATA[My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56864]]></link><description><![CDATA[We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63910]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62823]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The untalented are more at ease in a society that gives them valid alibis for not achieving than in one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52328]]></link><description><![CDATA[The untalented are more at ease in a society that gives them valid alibis for not achieving than in one where opportunities are abundant. In an affluent society, the alienated who clamor for power are largely untalented people who cannot make use of the unprecedented opportunities for self-realization, and cannot escape the confrontation with an ineffectual self.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no death! What seems so is transition; This life of mortal breath is but a suburb of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11303]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no death! What seems so is transition; This life of mortal breath is but a suburb of the life elysian, whose portal we call Death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's something in a flying horse, There's something in a huge balloon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61991]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's something in a flying horse, There's something in a huge balloon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47357]]></link><description><![CDATA[Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every country is going to watch their players, and they are going to see how much pride they have playing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every country is going to watch their players, and they are going to see how much pride they have playing for their country. In Mexico, they have two leagues. We're going to try to play hard like all the other teams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clearly you're seeing conflicting signs about the economy and the market reacting to that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clearly you're seeing conflicting signs about the economy and the market reacting to that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life can be seen your eyes butit is not fully appreciated until it is seen through your heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24930]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life can be seen your eyes butit is not fully appreciated until it is seen through your heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36269]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite in tune with the oldest traditions of the country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The smallest things become great when God requires them of us; they are small only in themselves; they are always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6444]]></link><description><![CDATA[The smallest things become great when God requires them of us; they are small only in themselves; they are always great when they are done for God, and when they serve to unite us with Him eternally.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But what will not ambition and revenge Descend to? who aspires must down as low  As high he soar'd, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2335]]></link><description><![CDATA[But what will not ambition and revenge Descend to? who aspires must down as low  As high he soar'd, obnoxious first and last   To basest things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul  Under the ribs of death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18987]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul  Under the ribs of death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cunning men deal in generalizations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10845]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cunning men deal in generalizations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/664]]></link><description><![CDATA[I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A growing percentage of trading closed-end funds is occurring electronically and away from the exchange floor. NASDAQ is well designed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30804]]></link><description><![CDATA[A growing percentage of trading closed-end funds is occurring electronically and away from the exchange floor. NASDAQ is well designed to trade closed-end funds. NASDAQ's electronic trading is efficient, translating into excellent retail investor access. And NASDAQ Market Makers are well qualified to address the nuances of trading closed-end funds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With renunciation life begins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53289]]></link><description><![CDATA[With renunciation life begins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . thieves at home must hang; but he that puts Into his overgorged and bloated purse  The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10191]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . thieves at home must hang; but he that puts Into his overgorged and bloated purse  The wealth of Indian provinces, escapes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor am I ashamed, as some are, to confess my ignorance of those matters with which I am unacquainted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48856]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor am I ashamed, as some are, to confess my ignorance of those matters with which I am unacquainted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The individual's most vital need is to prove his worth, and this usually means an insatiable hunger for action. For ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44121]]></link><description><![CDATA[The individual's most vital need is to prove his worth, and this usually means an insatiable hunger for action. For it is only the few who can acquire a sense of worth by developing and employing their capacities and talents. The majority prove their worth by keeping busy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have the God-given right to kick the government around--don't hesitate to do so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18051]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have the God-given right to kick the government around--don't hesitate to do so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you judge, investigate ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52742]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you judge, investigate]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5857]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of two evils choose the least. [Lat., E duobus malis minimum eligendum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of two evils choose the least. [Lat., E duobus malis minimum eligendum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Study is like the heaven's glorious sun, That will not be deep-searched with saucy looks:  Small have continual plodders ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58047]]></link><description><![CDATA[Study is like the heaven's glorious sun, That will not be deep-searched with saucy looks:  Small have continual plodders ever won,   Save base authority from others' books.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thy thoughts to nobler meditations give, And study how to die, not how to live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thy thoughts to nobler meditations give, And study how to die, not how to live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10913]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis meet That noble minds keep ever with their likes:  For who so firm that cannot be seduced? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51282]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis meet That noble minds keep ever with their likes:  For who so firm that cannot be seduced?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The journey is the reward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21106]]></link><description><![CDATA[The journey is the reward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15974]]></link><description><![CDATA[The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15974</guid></item></channel></rss>