<?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[Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10225]]></link><description><![CDATA[Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. -A Midsummer Night's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55512]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All married women are not wives ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61854]]></link><description><![CDATA[All married women are not wives]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['T is beauty truly blent, whose red and white Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on: Lady, you are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55740]]></link><description><![CDATA['T is beauty truly blent, whose red and white Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on: Lady, you are the cruell'st she alive If you will lead these graces to the grave And leave the world no copy. -Twelfth Night. Act i. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Promising is the eve of giving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Promising is the eve of giving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope that they'll learn to put different meanings with certain words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39242]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope that they'll learn to put different meanings with certain words.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make no judgments where you have no compassion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make no judgments where you have no compassion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is clear, though, that the Genesis experience bolsters the previous conclusion that an MSR entry vehicle must be designed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41705]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is clear, though, that the Genesis experience bolsters the previous conclusion that an MSR entry vehicle must be designed to maintain containment of the samples in the event that a parachute or any other entry, descent, and landing deployment or actuation fails.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9025]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, what men dare do! what men may do! what men daily do, not knowing what they do! -Much Ado ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55448]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, what men dare do! what men may do! what men daily do, not knowing what they do! -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember that there is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember that there is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your library is your portrait. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47738]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your library is your portrait.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44032]]></link><description><![CDATA[Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm very anxious not to fall into archaism or "literary" diction. I want my vocabulary to have a very large ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36990]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm very anxious not to fall into archaism or "literary" diction. I want my vocabulary to have a very large range, but the words must be alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The foremost art of kings is the ability to endure hatred. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23807]]></link><description><![CDATA[The foremost art of kings is the ability to endure hatred.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ease and honour are seldom bed-fellows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ease and honour are seldom bed-fellows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dear Land to which Desire forever flees; Time doth no present to our grasp allow,  Say in the fixed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dear Land to which Desire forever flees; Time doth no present to our grasp allow,  Say in the fixed Eternal shall we seize   At last the fleeting Now?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Halfe the world knowes not how the other halfe lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26124]]></link><description><![CDATA[Halfe the world knowes not how the other halfe lies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But 'twas a maxim he had often tried, That right was right, and there he would abide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54241]]></link><description><![CDATA[But 'twas a maxim he had often tried, That right was right, and there he would abide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He thinkes not well, that thinkes not againe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49417]]></link><description><![CDATA[He thinkes not well, that thinkes not againe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obviously, it's a lot of bodies in a classroom, but we don't have any choice, ... We just have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obviously, it's a lot of bodies in a classroom, but we don't have any choice, ... We just have to kind of make do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love yourself. It is important to stay positive because beauty comes from the inside out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66329]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love yourself. It is important to stay positive because beauty comes from the inside out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I ever marry, it will be on a sudden impulse - as a man shoots himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26456]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I ever marry, it will be on a sudden impulse - as a man shoots himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They had one of their low performances. We really took a few steps backward - steps we couldn't afford to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36502]]></link><description><![CDATA[They had one of their low performances. We really took a few steps backward - steps we couldn't afford to take.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9534]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad science and bad religion simply swap roles, the former proclaiming Truth, the latter worshiping Doubt ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54799]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad science and bad religion simply swap roles, the former proclaiming Truth, the latter worshiping Doubt]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Numbers are like people; torture them enough and they'll tell you anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Numbers are like people; torture them enough and they'll tell you anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real challenge (in life) is to choose, hold, and operatethrough intelligent, uplifting, and fully empowering beliefs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22434]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real challenge (in life) is to choose, hold, and operatethrough intelligent, uplifting, and fully empowering beliefs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can believe anything provided it is incredible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4050]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can believe anything provided it is incredible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All I can do is leave it in God's hands and hope that my fans feel where I'm coming from. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28164]]></link><description><![CDATA[All I can do is leave it in God's hands and hope that my fans feel where I'm coming from.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In economics, the majority is always wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26209]]></link><description><![CDATA[In economics, the majority is always wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Eiffel Tower is the Empire State Building after taxes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58663]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Eiffel Tower is the Empire State Building after taxes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing new in art except talent.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64749]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing new in art except talent.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mountains are in labour, the birth will be an absurd little mouse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50352]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mountains are in labour, the birth will be an absurd little mouse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When your courtyard twists, do not pour the water abroad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5700]]></link><description><![CDATA[When your courtyard twists, do not pour the water abroad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As good luck would have it. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 5. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55366]]></link><description><![CDATA[As good luck would have it. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O nation miserable, With an untitled tyrant bloody-sceptred,  When shalt thou see thy wholesome days again,   Since ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59973]]></link><description><![CDATA[O nation miserable, With an untitled tyrant bloody-sceptred,  When shalt thou see thy wholesome days again,   Since that the truest issue of thy throne    By his own interdiction stands accursed     And does blaspheme his breed?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman is like a teabag, you never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58699]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman is like a teabag, you never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53728]]></link><description><![CDATA[To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always wagered against God and I regard the little that I have won in this world as simply the outcome of this bet. However paltry may have been the stake (my life) I am conscious of having won to the full. Everything that is doddering, squint-eyed, vile, polluted and grotesque is summoned up for me in that one word: God!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25717]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2040]]></link><description><![CDATA[To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two phenomena, in my view, are particularly disturbing: One is the prevalence of the use of torture to extract confessions ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two phenomena, in my view, are particularly disturbing: One is the prevalence of the use of torture to extract confessions and information and the second one is the intimidation of those who make complaints against public officials. In my opinion, there is no doubt that these phenomena are more than allegations, but have in fact considerable basis in reality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who the Gods would destroy First they would make angry Haliburton -Greek. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2596]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who the Gods would destroy First they would make angry Haliburton -Greek.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When men grow virtuous in their old age they are merely making a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51566]]></link><description><![CDATA[When men grow virtuous in their old age they are merely making a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole fauna of human fantasies, their marine vegetation, drifts and luxuriates in the dimly lit zones of human activity, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41047]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole fauna of human fantasies, their marine vegetation, drifts and luxuriates in the dimly lit zones of human activity, as though plaiting thick tresses of darkness. Here, too, appear the lighthouses of the mind, with their outward resemblance to less pure symbols. The gateway to mystery swings open at the touch of human weakness and we have entered the realms of darkness. One false step, one slurred syllable together reveal a man's thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am so fond of tea that I could write a whole dissertation on its virtues. It comforts and enlivens ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58698]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am so fond of tea that I could write a whole dissertation on its virtues. It comforts and enlivens without the risks attendant on spirituous liquors. Gentle herb! Let the florid grape yield to thee. Thy soft influence is a more safe inspirer of social joy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take what you can use and let the rest go by ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take what you can use and let the rest go by]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not understanding the process of a spontaneously-ordered economy goes hand-in-hand with not understanding the creation of resources and wealth. And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not understanding the process of a spontaneously-ordered economy goes hand-in-hand with not understanding the creation of resources and wealth. And when a person does not understand the creation of resources and wealth, the only intellectual alternative is to believe that increasing wealth must be at the cost of someone else. This belief that our good fortune must be an exploitation of others may be the taproot of false prophecy about doom that our evil ways must bring upon us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an evengreater one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an evengreater one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57762]]></link><description><![CDATA[I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57762</guid></item></channel></rss>