<?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[No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46182]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he'll quickly learn how to chew ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21998]]></link><description><![CDATA[An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he'll quickly learn how to chew it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Again the violet of our early days Drinks beauteous azure from the golden sun,  And kindles into fragrance at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60703]]></link><description><![CDATA[Again the violet of our early days Drinks beauteous azure from the golden sun,  And kindles into fragrance at his blaze.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Negro's great stumbling block in the drive toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councilor or the Ku Klux ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23623]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Negro's great stumbling block in the drive toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner but the white moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every one is witty for his owne purpose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49221]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every one is witty for his owne purpose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9100]]></link><description><![CDATA[What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21528]]></link><description><![CDATA[The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never tell one client that I cannot attend his sales convention because I have a previous engagement with another ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8879]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never tell one client that I cannot attend his sales convention because I have a previous engagement with another client; successful polygamy depends upon pretending to each spouse that she is the only pebble on your beach.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of course we're trying to compete with the publicity, ... At least Game 1 of the Series wasn't on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of course we're trying to compete with the publicity, ... At least Game 1 of the Series wasn't on the same night as our game. We all want to have good teams in Chicago.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience is the only prophecy of wise men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wonder if my mom just got tired of voting for North College Hill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35476]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wonder if my mom just got tired of voting for North College Hill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind, relaxing into needful sport, Should turn to writers of an abler sort,  Whose wit well managed, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53004]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind, relaxing into needful sport, Should turn to writers of an abler sort,  Whose wit well managed, and whose classic style,   Give truth a lustre, and make wisdom smile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's more work to sell a $1000 work by an emerging artist than a $20,000 work by an established one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30799]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's more work to sell a $1000 work by an emerging artist than a $20,000 work by an established one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consider the hour-glass; there is nothing to be accomplished by rattling or shaking; you have to wait patiently until the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consider the hour-glass; there is nothing to be accomplished by rattling or shaking; you have to wait patiently until the sand, grain by grain, has run from one funnel into the other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He made all countries where he came his own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25959]]></link><description><![CDATA[He made all countries where he came his own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What I mean by objectivity is not the objectivity of a machine, but of a sensible human being with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30074]]></link><description><![CDATA[What I mean by objectivity is not the objectivity of a machine, but of a sensible human being with the mystery of personal selection at the heart of it. The second challenge has been to impose order onto the things seen and to supply the visual context and the intellectual framework - that to me is the art of photography.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is enough that we set out to mold the motley stuff of life into some form of our own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21825]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is enough that we set out to mold the motley stuff of life into some form of our own choosing; when we do, the performance is itself the wage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22085]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life, a good life, a great life is about "Why not?" May we never forget it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65623]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life, a good life, a great life is about "Why not?" May we never forget it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a step in the direction of releasing all Palestinian prisoners. Their continued stay in prison does not help Israel's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36378]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a step in the direction of releasing all Palestinian prisoners. Their continued stay in prison does not help Israel's interests.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is richest who is content with the least. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28153]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is richest who is content with the least.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59478]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Get dealt a set of cards in life, and just deal with them........no problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31358]]></link><description><![CDATA[Get dealt a set of cards in life, and just deal with them........no problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32660]]></link><description><![CDATA[O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can still recall old Mister Barnslow getting out every morning and nailing a fresh load of tadpoles to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11775]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can still recall old Mister Barnslow getting out every morning and nailing a fresh load of tadpoles to the old board of his. Then he'd spin it round and round, like a wheel of fortune, and no matter where it stopped he'd yell out, "Tadpoles! Tadpoles is a winner!" We all thought he was crazy. But then we had some growing up to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune favours the bold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4475]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune favours the bold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grades are a problem. On the most general level, they're an explicit acknowledgment that what you're doing is insufficiently interesting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grades are a problem. On the most general level, they're an explicit acknowledgment that what you're doing is insufficiently interesting or rewarding for you to do it on your own. Nobody ever gave you a grade for learning how to play, how to ride a bicycle, or how to kiss. One of the best ways to destroy love for any of these activities would be through the use of grades, and the coercion and judgment they represent. Grades are a cudgel to bludgeon the unwilling into doing what they don't want to do, an important instrument in inculcating children into a lifelong subservience to whatever authority happens to be thrust over them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52194]]></link><description><![CDATA[We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day. - The Oracle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27985]]></link><description><![CDATA[The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day. - The Oracle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literature is news that stays news. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literature is news that stays news.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58174]]></link><description><![CDATA[If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, tho it be in the woods.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worry -- a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62270]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worry -- a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the technology of our production was still pre-War. They were sort of '38, '39 and the War had been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35738]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the technology of our production was still pre-War. They were sort of '38, '39 and the War had been stable and so we were infinitely behind whatever had been going on in the United States for instance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse- power of the understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13977]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse- power of the understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is impossible to understand the history of economic thought if one does not pay attention to the fact that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15727]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is impossible to understand the history of economic thought if one does not pay attention to the fact that economics as such is a challenge to the conceit of those in power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is just an illusion caused by the temporary absence of reality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is just an illusion caused by the temporary absence of reality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even on the coldest days, with sunshine, we have to crack open the top. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even on the coldest days, with sunshine, we have to crack open the top.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What, wouldst thou have me turn pelican, and feed thee out of my own vitals? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46006]]></link><description><![CDATA[What, wouldst thou have me turn pelican, and feed thee out of my own vitals?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fine words dresse ill deedes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fine words dresse ill deedes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're all pilgrims on the same journey-but some pilgrims have betterroad maps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21979]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're all pilgrims on the same journey-but some pilgrims have betterroad maps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instinct is the nose of the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instinct is the nose of the mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My brother Mark still lives in the house we grew up in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37977]]></link><description><![CDATA[My brother Mark still lives in the house we grew up in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was x years old in the year x^2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26509]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was x years old in the year x^2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1789]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tombs are the clothes of the dead; a grave is but a plain suit; a rich monument is an embroidered ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tombs are the clothes of the dead; a grave is but a plain suit; a rich monument is an embroidered one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1091]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and a flatterer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For oute of olde feldys, as men sey, Comyth al this newe corn from yere to yere;  And out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1730]]></link><description><![CDATA[For oute of olde feldys, as men sey, Comyth al this newe corn from yere to yere;  And out of old bokis, in good fey,   Comyth al this newe science that men lere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25834]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is down needs fear no fall He that is low, no pride. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14914]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is down needs fear no fall He that is low, no pride.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14914</guid></item></channel></rss>