<?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 the FedEx guy showed up with the medal, I was so excited. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35435]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the FedEx guy showed up with the medal, I was so excited.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had the opportunity to try camel steak while in Western Australia. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33638]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had the opportunity to try camel steak while in Western Australia.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64538]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In much of the West, the well educated have been taught to believe that they can know nothing and that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14746]]></link><description><![CDATA[In much of the West, the well educated have been taught to believe that they can know nothing and that they can draw no independent conclusions about truth, unless they cite a study and "experts" have affirmed it. "Studies show" is to the modern secular college graduate what "Scripture says" is to the religious fundamentalist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't like to fight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39350]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't like to fight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, I've always felt that a person's intelligence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do it soon enough, if that we do be well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50045]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do it soon enough, if that we do be well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, thou hast a damnable iteration, and art indeed able to corrupt a saint. Thou hast done much harm upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25230]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, thou hast a damnable iteration, and art indeed able to corrupt a saint. Thou hast done much harm upon me Hal, God forgive thee for it. Before I knew thee Hal, I knew nothing, and now am I, if a man should speak truly, little better than one of the wicked.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's wrong with being a boring kind of guy?. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4736]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's wrong with being a boring kind of guy?.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We search the world for truth; we cull The good, the pure, the beautiful,  From all old flower fields ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54922]]></link><description><![CDATA[We search the world for truth; we cull The good, the pure, the beautiful,  From all old flower fields of the soul;   And, weary seeker of the best,    We come back laden from out quest,     To find that all the sages said      Is in the Book our mothers read.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60317]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46729]]></link><description><![CDATA[That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53439]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are guaranteed you will win, you can take very inflammatory, very extreme positions. If you have to run ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52472]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are guaranteed you will win, you can take very inflammatory, very extreme positions. If you have to run in a district where where you might lose, you will move to the center. That is the beauty of the two party system in America as opposed to the parliamentary system in Europe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be pain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my deary, kiss me! and be quiet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be pain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my deary, kiss me! and be quiet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rain forest has spent a lot of money and done extensive research on Johnson County and the Corridor. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37845]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rain forest has spent a lot of money and done extensive research on Johnson County and the Corridor. If you were not going to upset the whole flow of your deal, you choose somewhere nearby.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Undertake something that is difficult; it will do you good. Unless you try to do something beyond what you have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12261]]></link><description><![CDATA[Undertake something that is difficult; it will do you good. Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['T is not for gravity to play at cherry-pit with Satan. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55762]]></link><description><![CDATA['T is not for gravity to play at cherry-pit with Satan. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was known as the chief grave robber of my state. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47082]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was known as the chief grave robber of my state.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22255]]></link><description><![CDATA[My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59348]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago. -Jim Bishop.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Its roots are in American Negro culture, which is part of the whole country's heritage, ... But the dance speaks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29014]]></link><description><![CDATA[Its roots are in American Negro culture, which is part of the whole country's heritage, ... But the dance speaks to everyone. ... Otherwise it wouldn't work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65345]]></link><description><![CDATA[True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[External nature is only internal nature writ large. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63480]]></link><description><![CDATA[External nature is only internal nature writ large.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a dog I got, his favorite bone is in my arm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66693]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a dog I got, his favorite bone is in my arm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These robust, versatile machines will enable children to become more active in their own learning, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40205]]></link><description><![CDATA[These robust, versatile machines will enable children to become more active in their own learning,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slanders are like flies, that pass all over a man's good parts to light on his sores. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Slanders are like flies, that pass all over a man's good parts to light on his sores.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power does not corrupt man; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47966]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power does not corrupt man; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The suggestions that umpires award free kicks without regard to the merits [of a free kick], that umpiring is not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28449]]></link><description><![CDATA[The suggestions that umpires award free kicks without regard to the merits [of a free kick], that umpiring is not a worthwhile pursuit for kids and that umpires should put their egos in a locker are offensive and damaging.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy makes us giddy, dizzy. [Ger., Die Freude macht drehend, wirblicht.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy makes us giddy, dizzy. [Ger., Die Freude macht drehend, wirblicht.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She got off easy. Nobody's lost one since. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34660]]></link><description><![CDATA[She got off easy. Nobody's lost one since.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3733]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56738]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The purpose of problems is to push you toward obedience to God's laws,which are exact and cannot be changed. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21179]]></link><description><![CDATA[The purpose of problems is to push you toward obedience to God's laws,which are exact and cannot be changed. We have the free will to obey themor disobey them. Obedience will bring harmony, disobedience will bring youmore problems.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An exquisite invention this, Worthy of Love's most honeyed kiss,--  This art of writing billet-doux--   In buds, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47818]]></link><description><![CDATA[An exquisite invention this, Worthy of Love's most honeyed kiss,--  This art of writing billet-doux--   In buds, and odors, and bright hues!    In saying all one feels and thinks     In clever daffodils and pinks;      In puns of tulips; and in phrases,       Charming for their truth, of daisies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that hath love in his brest, hath spurres in his sides. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49352]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that hath love in his brest, hath spurres in his sides.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My son already knows how to program my phone. I think technology is good. ... They are learning the skills ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40527]]></link><description><![CDATA[My son already knows how to program my phone. I think technology is good. ... They are learning the skills they need at a much younger age. They have their own computers. They have it all. They're spoiled.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62217]]></link><description><![CDATA[The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3326]]></link><description><![CDATA[About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62718]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5270]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66632]]></link><description><![CDATA[One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quality is a proud and soaring thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quality is a proud and soaring thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're in a much better position to talk with people when they approachyou than when you approach them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21176]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're in a much better position to talk with people when they approachyou than when you approach them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boomer obviously threw a monkey wrench in everybody?s plans. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30704]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boomer obviously threw a monkey wrench in everybody?s plans.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then from the neighboring thicket the mockingbird, wildest of singers, Swinging aloft on a willow spray that hung o'er the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then from the neighboring thicket the mockingbird, wildest of singers, Swinging aloft on a willow spray that hung o'er the water.  Shook from his little throat such floods of delirious music,   That the whole air and the woods and the waves seemed silent to listen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amongst so many borrowed things, am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Amongst so many borrowed things, am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62996]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62408]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62408</guid></item></channel></rss>