<?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[The Farmer and the StorkA farmer placed nets on his newly-sown plowlands and caught a number of Cranes, which came ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1526]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Farmer and the StorkA farmer placed nets on his newly-sown plowlands and caught a number of Cranes, which came to pick up his seed. With them he trapped a Stork that had fractured his leg in the net and was earnestly beseeching the Farmer to spare his life. Pray save me, Master, he said, and let me go free this once. My broken limb should excite your pity. Besides, I am no Crane, I am a Stork, a bird of excellent character; and see how I love and slave for my father and mother. Look too, at my feathers-- they are not the least like those of a Crane.  The Farmer laughed aloud and said, It may be all as you say, I only know this: I have taken you with these robbers, the Cranes, and you must die in their company. Birds of a feather flock together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All failures - neurotics, psychotics, criminals, drunkards, problem children, suicides, perverts, and prostitutes - are failures because they are lacking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28875]]></link><description><![CDATA[All failures - neurotics, psychotics, criminals, drunkards, problem children, suicides, perverts, and prostitutes - are failures because they are lacking in social interest]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64756]]></link><description><![CDATA[To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With corporate balance sheets and cash flow strong, we look for investment spending to remain strong, pushing up growth in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39111]]></link><description><![CDATA[With corporate balance sheets and cash flow strong, we look for investment spending to remain strong, pushing up growth in the capital stock and adding to labor productivity growth in 2006.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a true genius appears in this world you may know him by the sign that the dunces are all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17347]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a true genius appears in this world you may know him by the sign that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that if ever I had to practice cannibalism, I might manage if there were enough tarragon around. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5218]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that if ever I had to practice cannibalism, I might manage if there were enough tarragon around.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's ironic, but until you can free those final monsters within the jungle of yourself, your life, your soul is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23577]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's ironic, but until you can free those final monsters within the jungle of yourself, your life, your soul is up for grabs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ye living lamps, by whose dear light The nightingale does sit so late;  And studying all the summer night, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ye living lamps, by whose dear light The nightingale does sit so late;  And studying all the summer night,   Her matchless songs does meditate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best love story is when you fall in love with the most unexpected person at the most unexpected time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62963]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best love story is when you fall in love with the most unexpected person at the most unexpected time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How do we make it through this. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33210]]></link><description><![CDATA[How do we make it through this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53851]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars — all over Europe, all over the world. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61142]]></link><description><![CDATA[And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars — all over Europe, all over the world. 'Sometimes in the private interest of royal families,' Satan said, 'sometimes to crush a weak nation; but never a war started by the aggressor for any clean purpose — there is no such war in the history of the race.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a great surprise to get these players back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39614]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a great surprise to get these players back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All heart they live, all head, all eye, all ear, All intellect, all sense, and as they please  They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2785]]></link><description><![CDATA[All heart they live, all head, all eye, all ear, All intellect, all sense, and as they please  They limb themselves, and colour, shape, or size,   Assume, as likes them best, condense or rare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Either wealth is much increased, or moderation is much decayed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Either wealth is much increased, or moderation is much decayed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The 65 percent solution is the equivalent of a chicken in every pot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37533]]></link><description><![CDATA[The 65 percent solution is the equivalent of a chicken in every pot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every day, nay every moment, try to do some good deed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63865]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every day, nay every moment, try to do some good deed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If... you are ever tempted to think that we modern Western Europeans cannot really be so very bad because we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8546]]></link><description><![CDATA[If... you are ever tempted to think that we modern Western Europeans cannot really be so very bad because we are, comparatively speaking, humane--if, in other words, you think God might be content with us on that ground--ask yourself whether you think God ought to have been content with the cruelty of past ages because they excelled in courage or chastity. You will see at once that this is an impossibility. From considering how the cruelty of our ancestors looks to us, you may get some inkling of how our softness, worldliness, and timidity would have looked to them, and hence how both must look to God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like one that on a lonesome road  Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like one that on a lonesome road  Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on,  And turns no more his head; Because he knows a frightful fiend  Doth close behind him tread.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.   - Ralph Waldo ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24002]]></link><description><![CDATA[Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.   - Ralph Waldo Emerson,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we can't figure something out in three weeks, we probably shouldn't bother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9891]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we can't figure something out in three weeks, we probably shouldn't bother.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2107]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The poor girl does not know how to have a conversation. Unfortunately, she does know how to speak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20132]]></link><description><![CDATA[The poor girl does not know how to have a conversation. Unfortunately, she does know how to speak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17857]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambition is the last refuge of the failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14940]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Basically, they're selling the foundation to pay for the mortgage. These lands really belong to future generations and shouldn't be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Basically, they're selling the foundation to pay for the mortgage. These lands really belong to future generations and shouldn't be sold to the highest bidder. There's no reason why the world's biggest economic power needs to sell parkland to make ends meet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No steps backward. [Lat., Vestigia nulla retrorsum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2327]]></link><description><![CDATA[No steps backward. [Lat., Vestigia nulla retrorsum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27243]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9037]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief...and unspeakable love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are men who never err, because they never propose anything rational. [Ger., Est giebt Menschen die gar nicht irren, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14159]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are men who never err, because they never propose anything rational. [Ger., Est giebt Menschen die gar nicht irren, weil sie sich nichts Vernunftiges vorsetzen.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a man's sympathy with all creatures that truly makes him a man. Until he extends his circle of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9181]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a man's sympathy with all creatures that truly makes him a man. Until he extends his circle of compassion to all living things, man himself will not find peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life's cares are comforts; such by heaven design'd He that has none, must make them or be wretched. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51865]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life's cares are comforts; such by heaven design'd He that has none, must make them or be wretched.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45888]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15405]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's worth at least $2 million, but probably a great deal more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36922]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's worth at least $2 million, but probably a great deal more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I deal with temptation by yielding to it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58884]]></link><description><![CDATA[I deal with temptation by yielding to it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're kids, but we still want our voices heard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38015]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're kids, but we still want our voices heard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am undone! I have smashed the waggon. [I have ruined all.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50869]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am undone! I have smashed the waggon. [I have ruined all.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't help believing that these things that come from the subconscious mind have a sort of truth to them. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30581]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't help believing that these things that come from the subconscious mind have a sort of truth to them. It may not be a scientific truth, but it's psychological truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Records aren't what come to mind. The markets are improving, but they're not red hot. Local employers are still moving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Records aren't what come to mind. The markets are improving, but they're not red hot. Local employers are still moving with caution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18938]]></link><description><![CDATA[Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11458]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21720]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59117]]></link><description><![CDATA[A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ideas are everywhere, but knowledge is rare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52161]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ideas are everywhere, but knowledge is rare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wrote a letter to my dad, I was going to write 'I really enjoyed being here', but I accidentally ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24635]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wrote a letter to my dad, I was going to write 'I really enjoyed being here', but I accidentally wrote 'rarely' instead of 'really'. But I wanted to use it, I didn't want to cross it out, so I wrote 'I rarely drive steamboats, Dad. There's a lot of sh*t you don't know about me. Quit trying to act like I'm a steamboat operator.' I know this letter took a harsh turn right away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the shadows of tree-trunks and shadows of leavesInterlace with low voices and footsteps and sunlightTo divide us forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32117]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the shadows of tree-trunks and shadows of leavesInterlace with low voices and footsteps and sunlightTo divide us forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cats sleep Anywhere, Any table, Any chair, Top of piano, Window-ledge, In the middle, On the edge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5338]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cats sleep Anywhere, Any table, Any chair, Top of piano, Window-ledge, In the middle, On the edge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask--Thou smilest and art still,  Out-topping knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask--Thou smilest and art still,  Out-topping knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55307</guid></item></channel></rss>