<?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[When our individual interests and prospects do not seem worth living for, we are in desperate need for something apart ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56868]]></link><description><![CDATA[When our individual interests and prospects do not seem worth living for, we are in desperate need for something apart from us to live for. All forms of dedication, devotion, loyalty and self-surrender are in essence a desperate clinging to something which might give worth and meaning to our futile, spoiled lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cheerfulness is the very flower of health. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5827]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cheerfulness is the very flower of health.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She was basically going to need more time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34461]]></link><description><![CDATA[She was basically going to need more time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When reality becomes unbearable, the mind must withdraw from it and create a world of artificial perfection. Plato's world of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56788]]></link><description><![CDATA[When reality becomes unbearable, the mind must withdraw from it and create a world of artificial perfection. Plato's world of pure Ideas and Forms, which alone is to be considered as real, whereas the world of nature which we perceive is merely its cheap Woolworth copy, is a flight into delusion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything is going down: the price of the dollar, the price of stocks, the price of bonds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything is going down: the price of the dollar, the price of stocks, the price of bonds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to thank God for this retirement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51837]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to thank God for this retirement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28021]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under conditions of tyranny, it is far easier to act than to think. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under conditions of tyranny, it is far easier to act than to think.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rapid poverty reduction requires not only high rates of economic growth but also that the benefits of this growth be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36691]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rapid poverty reduction requires not only high rates of economic growth but also that the benefits of this growth be distributed more equitably.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bow is bent, the arrow flies, The winged shaft of fate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15371]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bow is bent, the arrow flies, The winged shaft of fate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was lucky I met her. But if not, I knew I had to marry somebody else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29094]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was lucky I met her. But if not, I knew I had to marry somebody else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hildegard, Abbess of Bingen, Visionary, 1179  Thou wayfaring Jesus -- a pilgrim and stranger,  Exiled from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7431]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hildegard, Abbess of Bingen, Visionary, 1179  Thou wayfaring Jesus -- a pilgrim and stranger,  Exiled from heaven by love at Thy birth: Exiled again from Thy rest in the manger,  A fugitive child 'mid the perils of earth -- Cheer with Thy fellowship all who are weary,  Wandering far from the land that they love: Guide every heart that is homeless and dreary,  Safe to its home in Thy presence above.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So enjoy the pleasures of the hour as not to spoil those that are to follow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51181]]></link><description><![CDATA[So enjoy the pleasures of the hour as not to spoil those that are to follow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For seldom shall she hear a tale So said, so tender, yet so true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57927]]></link><description><![CDATA[For seldom shall she hear a tale So said, so tender, yet so true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One should either be sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10015]]></link><description><![CDATA[One should either be sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A play is fiction-and fiction is fact distilled into truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34298]]></link><description><![CDATA[A play is fiction-and fiction is fact distilled into truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that God governs in the affairs of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51940]]></link><description><![CDATA[The longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that God governs in the affairs of man; and if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47727]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Uncertain ways unsafest are, And doubt a greater mischief than despair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Uncertain ways unsafest are, And doubt a greater mischief than despair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was the individual who cleared on this process within Customs and Border Protection and reviewed all the material and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37487]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was the individual who cleared on this process within Customs and Border Protection and reviewed all the material and there was nothing derogatory or any hesitation on our part in moving forward with supporting this decision.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exactness is the sublimity of fools. [Fr., L'exactitude est le sublime des sots.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16338]]></link><description><![CDATA[Exactness is the sublimity of fools. [Fr., L'exactitude est le sublime des sots.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12922]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14195]]></link><description><![CDATA[The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The leader seeks to communicate his vision to his followers. He capturestheir attention with his optimistic intuition of possible solutions ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21808]]></link><description><![CDATA[The leader seeks to communicate his vision to his followers. He capturestheir attention with his optimistic intuition of possible solutions totheir needs. He influences them by the dynamism of his faith. Hedemonstrates confidence that the challenge can be met, the need resolved,the crisis overcome.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15696]]></link><description><![CDATA[A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are the people our parents warned us about. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47637]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are the people our parents warned us about.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My free drift Halts not particularly, but moves itself  In a wide sea of wax; no levelled malice  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13101]]></link><description><![CDATA[My free drift Halts not particularly, but moves itself  In a wide sea of wax; no levelled malice   Infects one comma in the course I hold,    But flies an eagle flight, bold and forth on,     Leaving no tract behind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People talk about it being so heavy, but right now it feels weightless around my neck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35787]]></link><description><![CDATA[People talk about it being so heavy, but right now it feels weightless around my neck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Boy Hunting LocustsA boy was hunting for locusts. He had caught a goodly number, when he saw a Scorpion, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1513]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Boy Hunting LocustsA boy was hunting for locusts. He had caught a goodly number, when he saw a Scorpion, and mistaking him for a locust, reached out his hand to take him. The Scorpion, showing his sting, said: If you had but touched me, my friend, you would have lost me, and all your locusts too!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23620]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52701]]></link><description><![CDATA[The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See the effect of commercial intercourse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50481]]></link><description><![CDATA[See the effect of commercial intercourse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57880]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None save great men have been the authors of great heresies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57101]]></link><description><![CDATA[None save great men have been the authors of great heresies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61480]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bluntness is a virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46255]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bluntness is a virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best argument is that which seems merely an explanation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3087]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best argument is that which seems merely an explanation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is the refusal to panic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53634]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is the refusal to panic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stress: The confusion created when one's mind overrides the body's basic desire to choke the living daylights out of some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57974]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stress: The confusion created when one's mind overrides the body's basic desire to choke the living daylights out of some jerk who desperately deserves it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such to me is the new image of aging: growth in self and service for all mankind ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such to me is the new image of aging: growth in self and service for all mankind]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Throwing sand into the wheels of deeper international economic integration in order to reduce adjustment costs, as contemplated by some, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38005]]></link><description><![CDATA[Throwing sand into the wheels of deeper international economic integration in order to reduce adjustment costs, as contemplated by some, is not an attractive option.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art always has something of the unconscious about it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art always has something of the unconscious about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hospitals, like airports and supermarkets, only pretend to be open nights and weekends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hospitals, like airports and supermarkets, only pretend to be open nights and weekends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43810]]></link><description><![CDATA[All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty:one of imaginations most precious possessions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24724]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty:one of imaginations most precious possessions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20939]]></link><description><![CDATA[An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53738]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43262]]></link><description><![CDATA[He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43262</guid></item></channel></rss>