<?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[I hate women because they always know where things are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27075]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate women because they always know where things are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15611]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48399]]></link><description><![CDATA[To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11828]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, Hast thou more of pain or pleasure!  . . . .   Endless torments ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25611]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, Hast thou more of pain or pleasure!  . . . .   Endless torments dwell above thee:    Yet who would live, and live without thee!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Very well," cried I, "that's a good girl; I find you are perfectly qualified for making converts, and so go ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10131]]></link><description><![CDATA["Very well," cried I, "that's a good girl; I find you are perfectly qualified for making converts, and so go help your mother to make the gooseberry bye."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50910]]></link><description><![CDATA[The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ass and the Frogs AN ASS, carrying a load of wood, passed through a pond. As hewas crossing through ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1509]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Ass and the Frogs AN ASS, carrying a load of wood, passed through a pond. As hewas crossing through the water he lost his footing, stumbled andfell, and not being able to rise on account of his load, groanedheavily. Some Frogs frequenting the pool heard his lamentation,and said, What would you do if you had to live here always as wedo, when you make such a fuss about a mere fall into the water?Men often bear little grievances with less courage thanthey do large misfortunes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9739]]></link><description><![CDATA[It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49540]]></link><description><![CDATA[In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Envy, my son, wears herself away, and droops like a lamb under the influence of the evil eye. [Lat., L'invidia, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14026]]></link><description><![CDATA[Envy, my son, wears herself away, and droops like a lamb under the influence of the evil eye. [Lat., L'invidia, figliuol mio, se stessa macera,  E si dilegua come agnel per fascino.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Taste this, and be henceforth among the Gods thyself a Goddess. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58929]]></link><description><![CDATA[Taste this, and be henceforth among the Gods thyself a Goddess.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old habits are strong and jealous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old habits are strong and jealous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It looks easy, but It's not at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1018]]></link><description><![CDATA[It looks easy, but It's not at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many things--such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly--are done worst when we try hardest to do them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56602]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many things--such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly--are done worst when we try hardest to do them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ninety percent of success is showing up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ninety percent of success is showing up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43594]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Albrecht Dürer, artist, 1528, and Michelangelo Buonarrotti, artist, spiritual writer, 1564   Sweep away the illusion of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8320]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Albrecht Dürer, artist, 1528, and Michelangelo Buonarrotti, artist, spiritual writer, 1564   Sweep away the illusion of Time; glance, if thou have eyes, from the near moving-cause to the far-distant Mover. The stroke that came transmitted through a whole galaxy of elastic balls, was it less a stroke than if the last ball only had been struck, and sent flying? Oh, could I transport thee direct from the Beginnings to the Endings, how were thy eyesight unsealed, and thy heart set flaming in the Light-sea of celestial wonder! Then sawest thou that this fair Universe, were it in the meanest province thereof, is in very deed the star-domed City of God; that through every star, through every grass-blade, and most through every Living Soul, the glory of a present God still beams. But Nature, which is the Time-vesture of God and reveals Him to the wise, hides Him from the foolish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend is a second self. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16855]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend is a second self.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such an exploit have I in hand, Ligarius, Had you a healthful ear to hear of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such an exploit have I in hand, Ligarius, Had you a healthful ear to hear of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9451]]></link><description><![CDATA[For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modern Americans are so exposed, peered at, inquired about, and spied upon as to be increasingly without privacy--members of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modern Americans are so exposed, peered at, inquired about, and spied upon as to be increasingly without privacy--members of a ;naked society and denizens of a goldfish bowl.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coming out of BYU's football spring, 1999, practice: We might have a chance to be pretty good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57730]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coming out of BYU's football spring, 1999, practice: We might have a chance to be pretty good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are in such a slump that even the ones that are drinking aren't hitting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10703]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are in such a slump that even the ones that are drinking aren't hitting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A new poll showed that if the election was held today, people would be confused because it is normally held ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47381]]></link><description><![CDATA[A new poll showed that if the election was held today, people would be confused because it is normally held in November.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our industry has invested so much money in technology that perhaps it's time to invest in talent, in people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our industry has invested so much money in technology that perhaps it's time to invest in talent, in people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42919]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The aim of all struggles for liberty is to keep in bounds the armed defenders of peace, the governors and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47166]]></link><description><![CDATA[The aim of all struggles for liberty is to keep in bounds the armed defenders of peace, the governors and their constables. The political concept of the individual's freedom means: freedom from arbitrary action on the part of the police power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For everything you have missed you have gained something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17152]]></link><description><![CDATA[For everything you have missed you have gained something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better a bad excuse, than none at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48795]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better a bad excuse, than none at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right -- shame on you! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56148]]></link><description><![CDATA[I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right -- shame on you!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow, sleep late. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52179]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow, sleep late.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61463]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was very impressed with our second half. We played a 2-3 zone, but we didn't box out well so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32112]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was very impressed with our second half. We played a 2-3 zone, but we didn't box out well so we have to work on that. But I was very pleased. We took care of the basketball. Morgan Reeves played a tremendous game. She sparks our defense. She did a great job doing that. She took a charge from (Heath's) Maggie Combs and was in her face the whole game. She was able to rattle Heath a little bit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65887]]></link><description><![CDATA[Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by living, by losing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11304]]></link><description><![CDATA[I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by living, by losing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is there not A tongue in every star that talks with man,  And wooes him to be wise? nor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is there not A tongue in every star that talks with man,  And wooes him to be wise? nor wooes in vain;   This dead of midnight is the noon of thought,    And wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be no part of any body, is to be nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19068]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The situation is only getting worse. We started to notice it in July when imports really started to increase. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38691]]></link><description><![CDATA[The situation is only getting worse. We started to notice it in July when imports really started to increase.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where'er you walk cool gales shall fan the glade, Trees where you sit shall crowd into a shade.  Where'er ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58270]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where'er you walk cool gales shall fan the glade, Trees where you sit shall crowd into a shade.  Where'er you tread the blushing flowers shall rise,   And all things flourish where you turn your eyes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bitterest tear shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17045]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bitterest tear shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your treasure house is within; it contains all you'll ever need. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57414]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your treasure house is within; it contains all you'll ever need.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23746]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pilot project verifies that we're delivering [new products] as the customers wanted them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35917]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pilot project verifies that we're delivering [new products] as the customers wanted them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2470]]></link><description><![CDATA[Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of the atom is talking moonshine ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3425]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of the atom is talking moonshine]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63846]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cowslips tall her pensioners be. In their gold coats spots you see:  Those be rubies, fairy favors;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10543]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cowslips tall her pensioners be. In their gold coats spots you see:  Those be rubies, fairy favors;   In those freckles live their savors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10543</guid></item></channel></rss>