<?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[Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31488]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing again. We have to begin to learn to rule ourselves again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order to get power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10783]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order to get power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not connected with goodness but with qualities that are the opposite of goodness, such as pride, cunning and cruelty]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But that old man, who is lord of the broad estate and the hall, Dropped off gorged from a scheme ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51692]]></link><description><![CDATA[But that old man, who is lord of the broad estate and the hall, Dropped off gorged from a scheme which left us flaccid and drained.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Try to keep order and security so that there will not be any negative side effects. Try to be polite, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Try to keep order and security so that there will not be any negative side effects. Try to be polite, use good language and avoid scuffles as befits a revolutionary Iranian Muslim.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11905]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1697]]></link><description><![CDATA[The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stay busy and take care of your own business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stay busy and take care of your own business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that seekes trouble never misses. [He that seeks trouble never misses.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49391]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that seekes trouble never misses. [He that seeks trouble never misses.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distill it out;  For our bad neighbor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51367]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distill it out;  For our bad neighbor makes us early stirrers,   Which is both healthful, and good husbandry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If all hearts were open and all desires known -- as they would be if people showed their souls -- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61058]]></link><description><![CDATA[If all hearts were open and all desires known -- as they would be if people showed their souls -- how many gapings, sighings, clenched fists, knotted brows, broad grins, and red eyes should we see in the market-place!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every time you win, you're reborn; when you lose, you die a little. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35551]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every time you win, you're reborn; when you lose, you die a little.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/872]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14424]]></link><description><![CDATA[Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[nobody can disarm the resistance movements without a political resolution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28614]]></link><description><![CDATA[nobody can disarm the resistance movements without a political resolution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63274]]></link><description><![CDATA[The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the Sex War ended with the slaughter of the Grandmothers, / They found a bachelor's baby suffocating under them; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55280]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the Sex War ended with the slaughter of the Grandmothers, / They found a bachelor's baby suffocating under them; / Somebody called him George and that was the end of it: / They hitched him up to the Army.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing recedes like success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing recedes like success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state to another, nothing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54075]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state to another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have an infinate number of monkeys and an infinate number of Sparcs, they will eventually code Solaris. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57110]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have an infinate number of monkeys and an infinate number of Sparcs, they will eventually code Solaris.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62922]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the idea of any pleasure strikes your imagination, make a just computation between the duration of the pleasure and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46720]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the idea of any pleasure strikes your imagination, make a just computation between the duration of the pleasure and that of the repentance that is likely to follow it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But sighs subside, and tears (even widows') shrink, Like Arno in the summer, to a shallow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48724]]></link><description><![CDATA[But sighs subside, and tears (even widows') shrink, Like Arno in the summer, to a shallow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't give advice. I can't tell anybody what to do. Instead I say, this is what we know about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/806]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't give advice. I can't tell anybody what to do. Instead I say, this is what we know about this problem at this time. And here are the consequences of these actions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want people to miss this wonderful show by these imaginative and talented young artists. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33597]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want people to miss this wonderful show by these imaginative and talented young artists.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . what is human and the same about the males and females classified as Homo sapiens is much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27020]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . what is human and the same about the males and females classified as Homo sapiens is much greater than the differences.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Born to be wild - live to outgrow it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61574]]></link><description><![CDATA[Born to be wild - live to outgrow it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26315]]></link><description><![CDATA[Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership is an action, not a position. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24443]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership is an action, not a position.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Saddle your dreams before you ride em. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63238]]></link><description><![CDATA[Saddle your dreams before you ride em.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[and everything after that is just cost savings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34191]]></link><description><![CDATA[and everything after that is just cost savings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cruelest lies are often told in silence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64875]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cruelest lies are often told in silence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63164]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the Lord answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52998]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the Lord answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obeying an inalienable law, things grew, spreading riotous and strange in their instinct for growth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4635]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obeying an inalienable law, things grew, spreading riotous and strange in their instinct for growth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have to pay money, you haven't won a thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37086]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have to pay money, you haven't won a thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23659]]></link><description><![CDATA[The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being popular with an audience is a very rickety ladder to be on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64324]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being popular with an audience is a very rickety ladder to be on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have been dying for twenty years, now I am going to live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20602]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have been dying for twenty years, now I am going to live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More matter for a May morning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26622]]></link><description><![CDATA[More matter for a May morning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53922]]></link><description><![CDATA[Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So there are five ways of knowing who will win. Those who know when to fight and when not to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9717]]></link><description><![CDATA[So there are five ways of knowing who will win. Those who know when to fight and when not to fight are victorious. Those who discern when to use many or few troops are victorious. Those whose upper and lower ranks have the same desire are victorious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morality is a private and costly luxury. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36454]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morality is a private and costly luxury.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right now, as long as the prices are steady and people have their jobs, I think they will do what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right now, as long as the prices are steady and people have their jobs, I think they will do what is needed to make their payments and avoid the foreclosure process.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59786]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would have answered your letter sooner, but you didn't send one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35887]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would have answered your letter sooner, but you didn't send one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is only fanastical that is not in fashion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15339]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is only fanastical that is not in fashion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that brings good newes knockes hard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that brings good newes knockes hard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49438</guid></item></channel></rss>