<?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[A collection of rare thoughts is nothing less than a cabinet of intellectual gems. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65684]]></link><description><![CDATA[A collection of rare thoughts is nothing less than a cabinet of intellectual gems.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I laugh, for hope hath happy place with me, If my bark sinks, 'tis to another sea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19773]]></link><description><![CDATA[I laugh, for hope hath happy place with me, If my bark sinks, 'tis to another sea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So you tell yourself you are pretty find clay To have tricked temptation and turned it away,  But wait, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58896]]></link><description><![CDATA[So you tell yourself you are pretty find clay To have tricked temptation and turned it away,  But wait, my friend, for a different day;   Wait till you want to want to!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morality is the theory that every h uman act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morality is the theory that every h uman act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's adding to their cost of operations, but like any business, they'll probably add it onto our costs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36004]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's adding to their cost of operations, but like any business, they'll probably add it onto our costs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who asks with timidity invites a refusal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51153]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who asks with timidity invites a refusal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64992]]></link><description><![CDATA[My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17457]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts. It means freedom from thinking about yourself at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is suffering. One side always loves more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is suffering. One side always loves more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you set out on your journey to Ithaca, pray that the road is long,full of adventure, full of knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23103]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you set out on your journey to Ithaca, pray that the road is long,full of adventure, full of knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3513]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.   - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The proximity of an army causes prices to go up; and high prices cause people's substance to be drained away. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3113]]></link><description><![CDATA[The proximity of an army causes prices to go up; and high prices cause people's substance to be drained away. When their substance is drained away, they will be afflicted by heavy exactions. With this loss of substance and exhaustion of strength, the homes of the people will be stripped bare, and their incomes dissipated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But 'midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57163]]></link><description><![CDATA[But 'midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess,  And roam along, the world's tired denizen,   With none who bless us, none whom we can bless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18205]]></link><description><![CDATA[For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Estate in two parishes is bread in two wallets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49210]]></link><description><![CDATA[Estate in two parishes is bread in two wallets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love her energy, and her business sense was impressive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37798]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love her energy, and her business sense was impressive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19370]]></link><description><![CDATA[History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["I cannot raise my worth too high; Of what vast consequence am I!"  "Not of the importance you suppose," ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16210]]></link><description><![CDATA["I cannot raise my worth too high; Of what vast consequence am I!"  "Not of the importance you suppose,"   Replies a Flea upon his nose;    "Be humble, learn thyself to scan;     Know, pride was never made for man."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The German is the discipline of fear; ours is the discipline of faith--and faith will triumph. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14974]]></link><description><![CDATA[The German is the discipline of fear; ours is the discipline of faith--and faith will triumph.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep quiet and people will think you a philosopher. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52805]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep quiet and people will think you a philosopher.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Praise none too much, for all are fickle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49715]]></link><description><![CDATA[Praise none too much, for all are fickle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22993]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All war represents a failure of diplomacy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12321]]></link><description><![CDATA[All war represents a failure of diplomacy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22716]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust the rest to the gods. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust the rest to the gods.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prime Minister Blair has long felt -- he certainly felt after September 11 -- that there was no moral or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32536]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prime Minister Blair has long felt -- he certainly felt after September 11 -- that there was no moral or strategic advantage to be gained by artificial distance from the U.S.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63999]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Residents of low-lying areas, mobile homes and tents should reach higher ground now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Residents of low-lying areas, mobile homes and tents should reach higher ground now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The system of heroism depends on women to be weak so men can be strong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63928]]></link><description><![CDATA[The system of heroism depends on women to be weak so men can be strong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here comes one with a paper: God give him grace to groan! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here comes one with a paper: God give him grace to groan!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, either side could win it, or it could be a draw. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57654]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, either side could win it, or it could be a draw.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66805]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have but one, and only hate, We love as one, we hate as one,  We have one foe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18857]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have but one, and only hate, We love as one, we hate as one,  We have one foe and one alone.   [Ger., Wir haben nur einen einzigen Hass,    Wir lieben vereint, wir hassen vereint,     Wir haben nur einen einzigen Feind.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's been very helpful and accommodating, and I like coming to a local business, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34449]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's been very helpful and accommodating, and I like coming to a local business,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've made a push to play our best basketball in the final two weeks. We will need to be at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32530]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've made a push to play our best basketball in the final two weeks. We will need to be at our best mentally and physically in the tournament.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43879]]></link><description><![CDATA[What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Although you may strut about, proud of your purse, fortune changes not birth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50184]]></link><description><![CDATA[Although you may strut about, proud of your purse, fortune changes not birth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, hell! to choose love by another's eyes. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55510]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, hell! to choose love by another's eyes. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The remedy is worse than the disease. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12481]]></link><description><![CDATA[The remedy is worse than the disease.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23990]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Higher fuel and energy prices have hit purchasing power, amid a high inflation rate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Higher fuel and energy prices have hit purchasing power, amid a high inflation rate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17269]]></link><description><![CDATA[Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The learned man knows that he is ignorant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64677]]></link><description><![CDATA[The learned man knows that he is ignorant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64677</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[Knowledge by suffering entereth, And life is perfected by Death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge by suffering entereth, And life is perfected by Death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53269]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is. •Hermann Hesse  Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan. But to have any meaning or viability at all, a life plan must include intimate relationships. •Harriet Lerner  Treasure your relationships, not your possessions. •Anthony J D'Angelo  Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none. •Richard M DeVos  Without relationships, no matter how much wealth, fame, power, prestige and seeming success by the standards and opinions of the world one has, happiness will constantly eluded him. •Sidney Malwed  Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate. •Albert Schweitzer  The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one. •Joan Baez  For me, the highest level of sexual excitement is in a monogamous relationship. •Warren Beatty  The key to any good relationship, on-screen and off, is communication, respect, and I guess you have to like the way the other person smells -- and he smelled real nice. •Sandra Bullock  My attachment has neither the blindness of the beginning, nor the microscopic accuracy of the close of such liaisons. •Lord Byron  In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of. •Angela Carter  I know for me the subject of how to be in a relationship is precious and complicated and challenging. It wouldn't be right to make it look too easy. •Helen Hunt  If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time. •Octavio Paz  The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands. •Alexandria Penney  It is the things in common that make relationships enjoyable, but it is the little differences that make them interesting. •Todd Ruthman  When you're in a relationship, you're always surrounded by a ring of circumstances... joined together by a wedding ring, or in a boxing ring. •Bob Seger  If you're in a relationship and you want to make it work, you have to be a little selfless at times. •Montel Williams  Assumptions are the termites of relationships.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing Gold Can Stay ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17760]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing Gold Can Stay]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54784</guid></item></channel></rss>