<?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[We can directly measure water ice, and then we can fly right through the plume. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32593]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can directly measure water ice, and then we can fly right through the plume.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laughter is inner jogging. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27747]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laughter is inner jogging.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The opposite of love is apathy, and hate is really the same as love. If you're so consumed by hatred ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45126]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opposite of love is apathy, and hate is really the same as love. If you're so consumed by hatred for someone, you might as well be loving them, because you're thinking about them for the same amount of time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[October's child is born for woe, And life's vicissitudes must know;  But lay on Opal on her breast,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23254]]></link><description><![CDATA[October's child is born for woe, And life's vicissitudes must know;  But lay on Opal on her breast,   And hope will lull those woes to rest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The violets were past their prime, Yet their departing breath  Was sweeter, in the blast of death,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60716]]></link><description><![CDATA[The violets were past their prime, Yet their departing breath  Was sweeter, in the blast of death,   Than all the lavish fragrance of the time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bit that one eates, no friend makes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49805]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bit that one eates, no friend makes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm a pretty paranoid guy, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28703]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm a pretty paranoid guy,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't like the weather in New England, just wait a few minutes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61487]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't like the weather in New England, just wait a few minutes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Innocence is not accustomed to blush. [Fr., L'innocence a rougir n'est point accoutumee.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4384]]></link><description><![CDATA[Innocence is not accustomed to blush. [Fr., L'innocence a rougir n'est point accoutumee.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essence of love is getting out of oneself and into others. When we care less about our feelings, our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65825]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essence of love is getting out of oneself and into others. When we care less about our feelings, our rights, our happiness, our security, etc., and begin to concern ourselves with the feelings, rights, happiness, and security of others, we will have found the true power of love.”]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too good for great things and too great for good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62329]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too good for great things and too great for good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64009]]></link><description><![CDATA[A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are some things that are not the way they should be, and even the indicators that are 'best-ever' status ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34097]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are some things that are not the way they should be, and even the indicators that are 'best-ever' status have room for improvement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come to the edge,' he said. They said, 'We are afraid.' 'Come to the edge,' he said. They came. He ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10359]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come to the edge,' he said. They said, 'We are afraid.' 'Come to the edge,' he said. They came. He pushed them... And they flew. -Peter McWilliams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45631]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And friends, dear friends,--when it shall be That this low breath is gone from me,  And gone my bier ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58783]]></link><description><![CDATA[And friends, dear friends,--when it shall be That this low breath is gone from me,  And gone my bier ye come to weep,   Let One, most loving of you all,    Say, "Not a tear must o'er her fall;     He giveth His beloved sleep."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I win or I die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38012]]></link><description><![CDATA[I win or I die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45018]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you.". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2189]]></link><description><![CDATA[Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We send our thoughts and prayers to the family. We ask people for their own safety to stay away from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38194]]></link><description><![CDATA[We send our thoughts and prayers to the family. We ask people for their own safety to stay away from railroad tracks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. Although they conceal an essential ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3241]]></link><description><![CDATA[The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. Although they conceal an essential orifice, these pointless globes are as near as the human form can ever come to abstract art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Businesses may come and go, but religion will last forever, for in no other endeavor does the consumer blame himself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Businesses may come and go, but religion will last forever, for in no other endeavor does the consumer blame himself for product failure]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever you can lose, you should reckon of no account. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25585]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever you can lose, you should reckon of no account.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24914]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My master is of churlish disposition And little recks to find the way to heaven  By doing deeds of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19866]]></link><description><![CDATA[My master is of churlish disposition And little recks to find the way to heaven  By doing deeds of hospitality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think of myself as a comedian who has the pleasure of writing jokes about things that I actually care ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56730]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think of myself as a comedian who has the pleasure of writing jokes about things that I actually care about. And that's really it. You know, if I really wanted to enact social change… I have great respect for people who are in the front lines and the trenches of trying to enact social change. I am far lazier than that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As they marched, the crowds lining the route broke into applause, a sweet and deeply felt spontaneous pattering that was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2916]]></link><description><![CDATA[As they marched, the crowds lining the route broke into applause, a sweet and deeply felt spontaneous pattering that was a sort of communal embrace. Welcome home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What maintains one vice would bring up two children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60501]]></link><description><![CDATA[What maintains one vice would bring up two children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not annoy his host after three days. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18424]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not annoy his host after three days.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But we are at war, and we here at THE DAILY SHOW will do our best to keep you informed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44446]]></link><description><![CDATA[But we are at war, and we here at THE DAILY SHOW will do our best to keep you informed of any late-breaking...humor we can find. Of course, our show is obviously at a disadvantage compared to the many news sources that we're competing with… at a disadvantage in several respects. For one thing, we are fake. They are not. So in terms of credibility we are, well, oddly enough, actually about even. We're about even.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66285]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When prosperity comes, do not use all of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1454]]></link><description><![CDATA[When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are dreaded by many then beware of many. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48607]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are dreaded by many then beware of many.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I guess that there isn't a better time for it. I was getting good screens and our guys were getting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33045]]></link><description><![CDATA[I guess that there isn't a better time for it. I was getting good screens and our guys were getting me the ball when I was open. So you can't ask for anything more than that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the people like us are we, And everyone else is They. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14137]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the people like us are we, And everyone else is They.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45638]]></link><description><![CDATA[From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63397]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Its the little things that matter, that add up in the end, with the priceless thrilling magic found only in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46253]]></link><description><![CDATA[Its the little things that matter, that add up in the end, with the priceless thrilling magic found only in a friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41203]]></link><description><![CDATA[For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60171]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the Universe to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded- here and there, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15813]]></link><description><![CDATA[Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded- here and there, now and then- are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.This is known as "bad luck.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65968]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though "Bother it" I may Occasionally say,  I never never use a big, big, D. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though "Bother it" I may Occasionally say,  I never never use a big, big, D.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17396]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things -- to compete. You can be just an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17614]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things -- to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The higher the Ape goes, the more he shewes his taile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49870]]></link><description><![CDATA[The higher the Ape goes, the more he shewes his taile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is holding up as well as you could imagine. But I can't discuss anything else until the board meeting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36036]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is holding up as well as you could imagine. But I can't discuss anything else until the board meeting tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36036</guid></item></channel></rss>