<?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[To see the right and not to do it is cowardice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10467]]></link><description><![CDATA[To see the right and not to do it is cowardice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've had bad luck with our kids--they've all grown up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5965]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've had bad luck with our kids--they've all grown up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am persuaded there is among the mass of our people a fund of wisdom, integrity, and humanity which will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38419]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am persuaded there is among the mass of our people a fund of wisdom, integrity, and humanity which will preserve their happiness in a tolerable measure]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them. [It., Non mancano pretesti quando si vuole.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11527]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them. [It., Non mancano pretesti quando si vuole.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women like silent men. They think they're listening. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27253]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women like silent men. They think they're listening.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What this system endeavours to do is to provide some factors which outline the discretion, which explain the discretion and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28455]]></link><description><![CDATA[What this system endeavours to do is to provide some factors which outline the discretion, which explain the discretion and make it accountable and transparent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe you can make forces of good and evil work for you, to get what you want. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35702]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe you can make forces of good and evil work for you, to get what you want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you go to the museum in Sacramento today there are three people they recognize as founders of California and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42335]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you go to the museum in Sacramento today there are three people they recognize as founders of California and Henry Miller is one of them. We are very proud of that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let's go get the shit kicked out of us by love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41101]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let's go get the shit kicked out of us by love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2259]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2259</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[Anger is seldom without an argument but seldom with a good one. -Lord Halifax. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2595]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger is seldom without an argument but seldom with a good one. -Lord Halifax.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sitting at home the way I do, I'd just love the hear from people. It'd be a great help in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30861]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sitting at home the way I do, I'd just love the hear from people. It'd be a great help in passing the time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness. [Lat., Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21026]]></link><description><![CDATA[There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness. [Lat., Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["O fateful flower beside the rill-- The Daffodil, the daffodil!" ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10972]]></link><description><![CDATA["O fateful flower beside the rill-- The Daffodil, the daffodil!"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No check, no stay this streamlet fears: How merrily it goes!  'Twill murmur on a thousand years,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51859]]></link><description><![CDATA[No check, no stay this streamlet fears: How merrily it goes!  'Twill murmur on a thousand years,   And flow as now it flows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Focus on your potential instead of your limitations ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Focus on your potential instead of your limitations]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12077]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our country, right or wrong! When right, to be kept right; when wrong, to be put right! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45811]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our country, right or wrong! When right, to be kept right; when wrong, to be put right!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/466]]></link><description><![CDATA[The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A crown! what is it? It is to bear the miseries of a people!  To bear the miseries of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54487]]></link><description><![CDATA[A crown! what is it? It is to bear the miseries of a people!  To bear the miseries of a people!   And sink beneath a load of splendid care!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never give a sucker an even break. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never give a sucker an even break.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, boy, that never happened. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40390]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, boy, that never happened.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Middle age . . . when a man is at the peak of his yearning power. -Wall Stress Journal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1859]]></link><description><![CDATA[Middle age . . . when a man is at the peak of his yearning power. -Wall Stress Journal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But mine, and mine I loved, and mine I praised, And mine that I was proud on--mine so much  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18479]]></link><description><![CDATA[But mine, and mine I loved, and mine I praised, And mine that I was proud on--mine so much  That I myself was to myself not mine,   Valuing of her--why she, O, she is fall'n    Into a pit of ink, that the wide sea     Hath drops too few to wash her clean again,      And salt too little which may season give       To her foul tainted flesh!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want to provide these students with skills before they reach high school or are in a situation where they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40806]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to provide these students with skills before they reach high school or are in a situation where they have to make financial decisions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Collective judgement of new ideas is so often wrong that it is arguable that progress depends on individuals being free ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Collective judgement of new ideas is so often wrong that it is arguable that progress depends on individuals being free to back their own judgement despite collective disapproval.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One faire day in winter makes not birds merrie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49686]]></link><description><![CDATA[One faire day in winter makes not birds merrie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61081]]></link><description><![CDATA[People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65477]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15151]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days;  Then Heaven tries ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23566]]></link><description><![CDATA[And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days;  Then Heaven tries earth if it be in tune,   And over it softly her warm ear lays.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Puns are a form of humor with words.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Puns are a form of humor with words.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great fortune enslaves its owner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51571]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great fortune enslaves its owner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men -- the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men -- the balance-wheel of the social machinery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the soft bed of luxury most kingdoms have expired. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26091]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the soft bed of luxury most kingdoms have expired.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't steal. The government hates competition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't steal. The government hates competition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the nonpharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the nonpharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There shall be in England seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny; the three-hooped pot shall have ten hoops; and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48495]]></link><description><![CDATA[There shall be in England seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny; the three-hooped pot shall have ten hoops; and I will make it felony to drink small beer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honest Criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, afriend, an aquaintance, or a stranger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22068]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honest Criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, afriend, an aquaintance, or a stranger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unless he knew you wouldn't believe the truth even if he told it to you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43326]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unless he knew you wouldn't believe the truth even if he told it to you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53046]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hear Socrates saying that the best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst. [Lat., Socratem audio dicentem, cibi ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20151]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hear Socrates saying that the best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst. [Lat., Socratem audio dicentem, cibi condimentum essa famem, potionis sitim.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don't have to do anything to earn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66325]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don't have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success - none of that matters. No one can take this love away from you, and it will always be here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being Lutheran, Mother believed that self-pity is a deadly sin and so is nostalgia, and she had no time for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being Lutheran, Mother believed that self-pity is a deadly sin and so is nostalgia, and she had no time for either]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25527]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rabble estimate few things according to their real value, most things according to their prejudices. [Lat., Vulgus ex veritate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52459]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rabble estimate few things according to their real value, most things according to their prejudices. [Lat., Vulgus ex veritate pauca, ex opinione multa aestimat.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52459</guid></item></channel></rss>