<?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[That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17398]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24505]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18551]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis toil's reward, that sweetens industry, As love inspires with strength the enraptur'd thrush. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62100]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis toil's reward, that sweetens industry, As love inspires with strength the enraptur'd thrush.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19542]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: "President Can't Swim.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent. [Proverbs 28:20]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15949]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent. [Proverbs 28:20].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the history of literature there are many great enduring works which were not published in the lifetimes of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25324]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the history of literature there are many great enduring works which were not published in the lifetimes of the authors. If the authors had not achieved self-affirmation while writing, how could they have continued to write? - Nobel Lecture 2000.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a certain sense all men are historians. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19321]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a certain sense all men are historians.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must intensify and render continuous by repeatedly presenting with suggestive ideas and mental pictures of the feast of good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22658]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must intensify and render continuous by repeatedly presenting with suggestive ideas and mental pictures of the feast of good things, and the flowing fountain, which awaits the successful achievement or attainment of the desires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The one who loves least controls the relationship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25673]]></link><description><![CDATA[The one who loves least controls the relationship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think men are a beautiful creation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40248]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think men are a beautiful creation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19370]]></link><description><![CDATA[History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No good deed goes unpunished. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46428]]></link><description><![CDATA[No good deed goes unpunished.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fool of nature stood with stupid eyes And gaping mouth, that testified surprise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58068]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fool of nature stood with stupid eyes And gaping mouth, that testified surprise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I got about 6037 songs I wrote myself and I'm trying to get them on the market and I just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36357]]></link><description><![CDATA[I got about 6037 songs I wrote myself and I'm trying to get them on the market and I just wish people could hear them and stuff but they'll do pretty good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus far we run before the wind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus far we run before the wind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life, to me, is like a quiet forest pool, one that needs a direct hit from a big rock half-buried ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life, to me, is like a quiet forest pool, one that needs a direct hit from a big rock half-buried in the ground. You pull and you pull, but you can't get the rock out of the ground. So you give it a good kick, but you lose your balance and go skidding down the hill toward the pool. Then out comes a big Hawaiian man who was screwing his wife beside the pool because they thought it was real pretty. He tells you to get out of there, but you start faking it, like you're talking Hawaiian, and then he gets mad and chases you...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is the little one thinking about? Very wonderful things, no doubt;  Unwritten history!   Unfathomed mystery!  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3636]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is the little one thinking about? Very wonderful things, no doubt;  Unwritten history!   Unfathomed mystery!    Yet he laughs and cries, and eats and drinks,     And chuckles and crows, and nods and winks,      As if his head were as full of kinks       And curious riddles as any sphinx!   - Josiah Gilbert Holland (used pseudonym Timothy Titcomb),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A grisly meteor on his face. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57821]]></link><description><![CDATA[A grisly meteor on his face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jane, you ignorant slut. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jane, you ignorant slut.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a different direction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3652]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a different direction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10139]]></link><description><![CDATA[The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil: my cup ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil: my cup runneth over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is not a virtue or value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is not a virtue or value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't like how things are, change it!  You're not a tree. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62861]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't like how things are, change it!  You're not a tree.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64503]]></link><description><![CDATA[When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sea returning day by day Restores the world-wide mart.  So let each dweller on the Bay   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4779]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sea returning day by day Restores the world-wide mart.  So let each dweller on the Bay   Fold Boston in his heart    Till these echoes be choked with snows     Or over the town blue ocean flows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's huge, massive mother ships going up to the Yukon. They've been filmed and are on video. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32505]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's huge, massive mother ships going up to the Yukon. They've been filmed and are on video.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10718]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life--knowing that under certain conditions it is not worth-while to live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34906]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail? -Dr. Robert Schuller. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22795]]></link><description><![CDATA[What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail? -Dr. Robert Schuller.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to give a man credit, put it in writing. If you want to give him hell, do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15772]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to give a man credit, put it in writing. If you want to give him hell, do it on the phone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you're 0-9, you've got a lot of flaws. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29485]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you're 0-9, you've got a lot of flaws.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always believed that astrophysics should be the extrapolation of laboratory physics, that we must begin from the present ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36280]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always believed that astrophysics should be the extrapolation of laboratory physics, that we must begin from the present universe and work our way backward to progressively more remote and uncertain epochs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10345]]></link><description><![CDATA[Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strangers open up to you just as much as your friends, sometimes even more for whatever reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strangers open up to you just as much as your friends, sometimes even more for whatever reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign.... Secondly, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61173]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign.... Secondly, a just cause.... Thirdly ... a rightful intention.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fashion of liking Racine will pass away like that of coffee. [Fr., La mode d'aimer Racine passera comme la ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25261]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fashion of liking Racine will pass away like that of coffee. [Fr., La mode d'aimer Racine passera comme la mode du cafe.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aldo Leopold, the early 20th century's Henry David Thoreau, said that we should think like a mountain, with a sense ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60359]]></link><description><![CDATA[Aldo Leopold, the early 20th century's Henry David Thoreau, said that we should think like a mountain, with a sense of permanence and a long view. At the beginning of the 21st century, we are at a peak of human power, wealth and information... We need to look back at our wonderful natural and human heritage, and cherish and protect the abundant values to be found there. We need to look out to the sides and see other parts of the world that need our help and can provide good ideas to go forward... We need to look ahead to be certain that our actions of today will make the world a better and richer and more varied place for our grandchildren and their grandchildren.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The craving for sympathy is the common boundary-line between joy and sorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58523]]></link><description><![CDATA[The craving for sympathy is the common boundary-line between joy and sorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money never starts an idea; it is the idea that starts the money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15948]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money never starts an idea; it is the idea that starts the money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No Sane man will dance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11029]]></link><description><![CDATA[No Sane man will dance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always turn to the sports page first. The sports page records people's accomplishments; the front page nothing but man's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63378]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always turn to the sports page first. The sports page records people's accomplishments; the front page nothing but man's failures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15033]]></link><description><![CDATA[The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful must take himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable, renascent errors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is my understanding from briefings that I have had with high-level sources within the intelligence organizations of this country ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39208]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is my understanding from briefings that I have had with high-level sources within the intelligence organizations of this country that at least two of the identified terrorists so far were people known to intelligence and immigration agencies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9511]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is the signature of civilizations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63116]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is the signature of civilizations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63116</guid></item></channel></rss>