<?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[Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Foolproof systems do not take into account the ingenuity of fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/890]]></link><description><![CDATA[Foolproof systems do not take into account the ingenuity of fools.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24611]]></link><description><![CDATA[The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63437]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies in a fight. But my friends, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13810]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies in a fight. But my friends, my goddamned friends, they're the ones who keep me walking the floor at nights!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[However, he has at the level of resistance that we need. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41162]]></link><description><![CDATA[However, he has at the level of resistance that we need.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62770]]></link><description><![CDATA[A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societiesï¿½ utopian imagesï¿½ can cause monstrous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60303]]></link><description><![CDATA[Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societiesï¿½ utopian imagesï¿½ can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too bad when I was a kid there wasn't a guy in our class that everybody called the "Cricket Boy", ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too bad when I was a kid there wasn't a guy in our class that everybody called the "Cricket Boy", because I would have liked to stand up in class and tell everybody, "You can make fun of the Cricket Boy if you want to, but to me he's just like everybody else." Then everybody would leave the Cricket Boy alone, and I'd invite him over to spend the night at my house, but after about five minutes of that loud chirping I'd have to kick him out. Maybe later we could get up a petition to get the Cricket Family run out of town. Bye, Cricket Boy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It’s the idea that people living close to nature tend to be noble. It’s seeing all those sunsets that does ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27324]]></link><description><![CDATA[It’s the idea that people living close to nature tend to be noble. It’s seeing all those sunsets that does it. You can’t watch a sunset and then go off and set fire to your neighbor’s tepee. Living close to nature is wonderful for your mental health.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64540]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The term up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fast has no meaning apart from the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44145]]></link><description><![CDATA[The term up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fast has no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition such terms have no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a very particular situation... most of our language about the organization and objective's of government is made up of such polar terms. Justice and injustice are typical. A reformer who wants to abolish injustice and create a world in which nothing but justice prevails is like a man who wants to make everything up. Such a man might feel that if he took the lowest in the world and carried it up to the highest point and kept on doing this, everything would eventually become up. This would certainly move a great many objects and create an enormous amount of activity. It might or might not be useful, according to the standards which we apply. However it would never result in the abolishment of down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience to the will of the Sovereign of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53464]]></link><description><![CDATA[The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience to the will of the Sovereign of the world, in a confidence in His declarations, and in imitation of His perfections.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66354]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wait, all that happens is that you get older. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41651]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There has been criticism of me from certain quarters among supporters and I can understand and respect that. It comes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42704]]></link><description><![CDATA[There has been criticism of me from certain quarters among supporters and I can understand and respect that. It comes with the territory. Perhaps I have taken this club as far as I can and now it is time for the mantle to pass on to someone else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you will help run our government in the American way, then there will never be danger of our government ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8798]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you will help run our government in the American way, then there will never be danger of our government running America in the wrong way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't care about motivation. I care about credibility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10602]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't care about motivation. I care about credibility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're devoted to giving children a chance to have a full camp experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31130]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're devoted to giving children a chance to have a full camp experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gen. Alexander will have to clean up the mess. We need to know if the money is being properly spent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42195]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gen. Alexander will have to clean up the mess. We need to know if the money is being properly spent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good teacher is a determined person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66206]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good teacher is a determined person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why should the brave Spanish soldiers brag? The sunne never sets in the Spanish dominions, but ever shineth on one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why should the brave Spanish soldiers brag? The sunne never sets in the Spanish dominions, but ever shineth on one part or other we have conquered for our king.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56920]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reliable office staff come in the shape of mature married women working from 9.30!.30 (inside school hours) during which they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15964]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reliable office staff come in the shape of mature married women working from 9.30!.30 (inside school hours) during which they will do more than the 9-5ers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59318]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Secret admirers make us believe things about ourselves that we always hoped were true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Secret admirers make us believe things about ourselves that we always hoped were true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A most unspotted lily shall she pass To the ground, and all the world shall mourn her. -King Henry VIII. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56060]]></link><description><![CDATA[A most unspotted lily shall she pass To the ground, and all the world shall mourn her. -King Henry VIII. Act v. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12906]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12027]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The highest stage in moral culture at which we can arrive is when we recognize that we ought to control ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52429]]></link><description><![CDATA[The highest stage in moral culture at which we can arrive is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thinking more than others about our own thoughts is not self-centeredness. It means that if asked what's on our mind, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thinking more than others about our own thoughts is not self-centeredness. It means that if asked what's on our mind, we are less likely to mention being aware of the world around us, and more likely to mention our inner reflections. But we are less likely to mention thinking about other people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Down comes rain drop, bubble follows; On the house-top one by one  Flock the synagogue of swallows,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58433]]></link><description><![CDATA[Down comes rain drop, bubble follows; On the house-top one by one  Flock the synagogue of swallows,   Met to vote that autumn's gone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Provoking, isn't it? that when one is most in need of sensible words, one finds them not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62056]]></link><description><![CDATA[Provoking, isn't it? that when one is most in need of sensible words, one finds them not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26402]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Animals can learn, but it is not by learning that they become dogs, cats, or horses. Only man has to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Animals can learn, but it is not by learning that they become dogs, cats, or horses. Only man has to learn to become what he is supposed to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Lion and the MouseA LION was awakened from sleep by a Mouse running over his face. Rising up angrily, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1511]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Lion and the MouseA LION was awakened from sleep by a Mouse running over his face. Rising up angrily, he caught him and was about to kill him, when the Mouse piteously entreated, saying: If you would only spare my life, I would be sure to repay your kindness. The Lion laughed and let him go. It happened shortly after this that the Lion was caught by some hunters, who bound him by st ropes to the ground. The Mouse, recognizing his roar, came gnawed the rope with his teeth, and set him free, exclaim You ridiculed the idea of my ever being able to help you, expecting to receive from me any repayment of your favor; I now you know that it is possible for even a Mouse to con benefits on a Lion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And be on they guard against the good and the just! They would fain curcify those who devise their own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60811]]></link><description><![CDATA[And be on they guard against the good and the just! They would fain curcify those who devise their own virtue -- they hate the lonesome ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Still rolls and to all time shall roll the tumbling flood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50326]]></link><description><![CDATA[Still rolls and to all time shall roll the tumbling flood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune always fights on the side of the prudent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune always fights on the side of the prudent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Integrity: A name is the blueprint of the thing we call character. You ask, What's in a name? I answer, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22867]]></link><description><![CDATA[Integrity: A name is the blueprint of the thing we call character. You ask, What's in a name? I answer, Just about everything you do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty:one of imaginations most precious possessions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24724]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty:one of imaginations most precious possessions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who, being loved, is poor? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47861]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who, being loved, is poor?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our similarities are different. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our similarities are different.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old time is still a-flying;  And this same flower that smiles to-day,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old time is still a-flying;  And this same flower that smiles to-day,   To-morrow may be dying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So that the old joy, modest as cake, as wine and friendship Will stay with us at the last, backed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38729]]></link><description><![CDATA[So that the old joy, modest as cake, as wine and friendship Will stay with us at the last, backed by the night Whose ruse gave it our final meaning]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Often the test of courage is not to die but to live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flag of the free heart's hope and home! By angel hands to valour given,  Thy stars have lit the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flag of the free heart's hope and home! By angel hands to valour given,  Thy stars have lit the welkin dome;   And all thy hues were born in heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16132</guid></item></channel></rss>