<?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[It's actually very difficult to make something both simple and good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66000]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's actually very difficult to make something both simple and good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20684]]></link><description><![CDATA[And maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would I had some flowers o' th' spring that might Become your time of day, and yours, and yours, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10974]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would I had some flowers o' th' spring that might Become your time of day, and yours, and yours,  That wear upon your virgin branches yet   Your maidenheads growing. O, Proserpina,    For the flowers now that, frighted, thou let'st fall     From Dis's wagon; daffodils,      That come before the swallow dares, and take       The winds of March with beauty; violets dim,        But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes         Or Cytherea's breath; pale primroses,          That die unmarried, ere they can behold           Bright Phoebus in his strength--a malady            Most incident to maids; bold oxlips and             The crown imperial; lilies of all kinds,              The flower-de-luce being one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[lovers alone wear sunlight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25792]]></link><description><![CDATA[lovers alone wear sunlight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For me, commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred; nor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8997]]></link><description><![CDATA[For me, commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred; nor can I detach one duty, like you, from all other duties, and concentrate my forces mechanically on the payment of moneys]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The test of a good teacher is not how many questions he can ask his pupils that they will answer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52741]]></link><description><![CDATA[The test of a good teacher is not how many questions he can ask his pupils that they will answer readily, but how many questions he inspires them to ask him which he finds it hard to answer]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justice is truth in action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Justice is truth in action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People want to be able to use more of their outdoor space, and they want flexibility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33316]]></link><description><![CDATA[People want to be able to use more of their outdoor space, and they want flexibility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A faith to live by, a self to live with, and a purpose to live for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22070]]></link><description><![CDATA[A faith to live by, a self to live with, and a purpose to live for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Style is the perfection of a point of view ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58090]]></link><description><![CDATA[Style is the perfection of a point of view]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46908]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've watched Ginn a lot, and I'm not sure I've seen a faster player in pads. We're going to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34084]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've watched Ginn a lot, and I'm not sure I've seen a faster player in pads. We're going to be looking for him a lot, because if he finds a crease, he's gone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the twilight of morning to climb to the top of the mountain,-- Thee to salute, kindly star, earliest herald ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59920]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the twilight of morning to climb to the top of the mountain,-- Thee to salute, kindly star, earliest herald of day,--  And to await, with impatience, the gaze of the ruler of heaven.--   Youthful delight, oh, how oft lur'st thou me out in the night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think-therefore I'm single ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59154]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think-therefore I'm single]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/729]]></link><description><![CDATA[Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing to be found in a beehive that is not submerged in a bee. And yet you can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56984]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing to be found in a beehive that is not submerged in a bee. And yet you can search a bee forever with cyclotron and fluoroscope, and you will never find the hive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great tragedy of science -- the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9324]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great tragedy of science -- the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the other side of the handrail, the hallway's gray marble floor looks as if we've climbed a stairway through ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8897]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the other side of the handrail, the hallway's gray marble floor looks as if we've climbed a stairway through the clouds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is like jam. You can't spread even a little without getting some on yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is like jam. You can't spread even a little without getting some on yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give time and permit a short delay, impetuosity ruins everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51557]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give time and permit a short delay, impetuosity ruins everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All maxims have their antagonist maxims; proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26598]]></link><description><![CDATA[All maxims have their antagonist maxims; proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask not what the government can do for you. Ask why it doesn't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ask not what the government can do for you. Ask why it doesn't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64703]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music . . .can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43480]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music . . .can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To these men and women we humbly bow, to the generations who followed and carried the pulpit and teaching of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35088]]></link><description><![CDATA[To these men and women we humbly bow, to the generations who followed and carried the pulpit and teaching of Jesus Christ, we are grateful. Let us be inspired to walk in His presence and leave our children the same faith and hope of a home beyond the grave -- a house not made by hands but eternal in the heavens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy. -- Drillers whom Edwin ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy. -- Drillers whom Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist in his project to drill for oil in 1859.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Join in the new game that's sweeping the country. It's called "Bureaucracy" Everybody stands in a circle. The first person ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Join in the new game that's sweeping the country. It's called "Bureaucracy" Everybody stands in a circle. The first person to do anything loses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53946]]></link><description><![CDATA[Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To fight is a radical instinct; if men have nothing else to fight over they will fight over words, fancies, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15672]]></link><description><![CDATA[To fight is a radical instinct; if men have nothing else to fight over they will fight over words, fancies, or women, or they will fight because they dislike each other's looks, or because they have met walking in opposite directions]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vanity keeps persons in favor with themselves who are out of favor with all others ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60364]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vanity keeps persons in favor with themselves who are out of favor with all others]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Both the revolutionary and the creative individual are perpetual juveniles. The revolutionary does not grow up because he cannot grow, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47606]]></link><description><![CDATA[Both the revolutionary and the creative individual are perpetual juveniles. The revolutionary does not grow up because he cannot grow, while the creative individual cannot grow up because he keeps growing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Arms and laws do not flourish together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24256]]></link><description><![CDATA[Arms and laws do not flourish together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have big shoes to fill. As the defending state champions there are a lot of expectations on them. Defending ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39943]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have big shoes to fill. As the defending state champions there are a lot of expectations on them. Defending the state title is not our focus. We want to develop chemistry, play well as a team and learn to compete. All that is going to prepare us for the toughest district in the state of Texas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An optimist is the human personification of spring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45179]]></link><description><![CDATA[An optimist is the human personification of spring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At first, we're learning for ourselves, ... We're looking for things that we'll work on for the classroom. We're piggybacking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39460]]></link><description><![CDATA[At first, we're learning for ourselves, ... We're looking for things that we'll work on for the classroom. We're piggybacking on what other people have already done, and then we will serve as a resource to other people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lightning strikes the tops of the mountains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50296]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lightning strikes the tops of the mountains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never let us be discouraged with ourselves; it is not when we are conscious of our faults that we are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never let us be discouraged with ourselves; it is not when we are conscious of our faults that we are the most wicked: on the contrary, we are less so. We see by a brighter light. And let us remember, for our consolation, that we never perceive our sins till He begin to cure them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Epicurus] says that you should rather have regard to the company with whom you eat and drink, than to what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9120]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Epicurus] says that you should rather have regard to the company with whom you eat and drink, than to what you eat and drink. [Ante, inquit, cicumspiciendum est, cum quibos edas et bibas, quam quid edas et bibas.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions - the curtain was up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63505]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions - the curtain was up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61145]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An angelic boyhood becomes a Satanic old age. [Lat., Angelicus juvenis senibus satanizat in annis.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48963]]></link><description><![CDATA[An angelic boyhood becomes a Satanic old age. [Lat., Angelicus juvenis senibus satanizat in annis.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century:that a writer never complains, never explains and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21977]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century:that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For thou hast given me in this beauteous face A world of earthly blessings to my soul,  If sympathy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58532]]></link><description><![CDATA[For thou hast given me in this beauteous face A world of earthly blessings to my soul,  If sympathy of love unite our thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And wiped our eyes Of drops that sacred pity hath engender'd. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55656]]></link><description><![CDATA[And wiped our eyes Of drops that sacred pity hath engender'd. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64626]]></link><description><![CDATA[As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joys too exquisite to last, And yet more exquisite when past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23432]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joys too exquisite to last, And yet more exquisite when past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23432</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[It's been the longest week ever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30259]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's been the longest week ever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30259</guid></item></channel></rss>