<?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[Many great actions are committed in small struggles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64680]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many great actions are committed in small struggles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ultimate Path is without difficulty. Just avoid picking and choosing. -Seng-Ts'an. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12242]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ultimate Path is without difficulty. Just avoid picking and choosing. -Seng-Ts'an.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no way of keeping profits up but by keeping wages down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5063]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no way of keeping profits up but by keeping wages down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trick is to realize that after giving your best, there's nothing more to give. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17497]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trick is to realize that after giving your best, there's nothing more to give.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of managing is to keep the guys who hate you away from the guys who are undecided. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57684]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of managing is to keep the guys who hate you away from the guys who are undecided.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In men this blunder still you find, All think their little set mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9609]]></link><description><![CDATA[In men this blunder still you find, All think their little set mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43624]]></link><description><![CDATA[The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We knew he was going to bounce back. He wanted to show he was worth the money. He played Marty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37380]]></link><description><![CDATA[We knew he was going to bounce back. He wanted to show he was worth the money. He played Marty hockey, and made some great saves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We didn't get enough information from the investigating agency to proceed with the case. We didn't have good enough information ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31445]]></link><description><![CDATA[We didn't get enough information from the investigating agency to proceed with the case. We didn't have good enough information to go before a jury and prove guilt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work at it night and day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work at it night and day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The finest command of language is often shown by saying nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44662]]></link><description><![CDATA[The finest command of language is often shown by saying nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63978]]></link><description><![CDATA[In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ordinary corporation is a person for purposes of the adjudicatory processes, whether it represents proprietary, spiritual, aesthetic, or charitable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43939]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ordinary corporation is a person for purposes of the adjudicatory processes, whether it represents proprietary, spiritual, aesthetic, or charitable causes. So it should be as respects valleys, alpine meadows, rivers, lakes, estuaries, beaches, ridges, groves of trees, swampland, or even air that feels the destructive pressures of modern technology and modern life. The river, for example, is the living symbol of all the life it sustains or nourishes - fish, aquatic insects, water ouzels, otter, fisher, deer, elk, bear, and all other animals, including man, who are dependent on it or who enjoy it for its sight, its sound, or its life. The river as plaintiff speaks for the ecological unit of life that is part of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[During production, I didn't ever have one minute off to go file my nails, or do anything which girls quite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62678]]></link><description><![CDATA[During production, I didn't ever have one minute off to go file my nails, or do anything which girls quite like to do some of the time. I couldn't do anything. I turned into a zombie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64852]]></link><description><![CDATA[If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president's.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44341]]></link><description><![CDATA[We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24395]]></link><description><![CDATA[To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nearest approach to immortality on earth is a government bureau. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18049]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nearest approach to immortality on earth is a government bureau.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not on thy sole, but on thy soul, harsh Jew, Thou mak'st thy knife keen; but no metal can--  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14032]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not on thy sole, but on thy soul, harsh Jew, Thou mak'st thy knife keen; but no metal can--  No, not the hangman's axe--bear half the keenness   Of thy sharp envy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For 'tis a truth well known to most, That whatsoever thing is lost,  We seek it, ere it comes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25572]]></link><description><![CDATA[For 'tis a truth well known to most, That whatsoever thing is lost,  We seek it, ere it comes to light,   In every cranny but the right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fact that households are saving so little, even with strong growth in personal income, is a potentially troubling development. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39116]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fact that households are saving so little, even with strong growth in personal income, is a potentially troubling development.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou shalt sleep in thy clouds, careless of the voice of the morning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou shalt sleep in thy clouds, careless of the voice of the morning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Fir-Tree and the BrambleA fir-tree said boastingly to the Bramble, You are useful for nothing at all; while I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1590]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Fir-Tree and the BrambleA fir-tree said boastingly to the Bramble, You are useful for nothing at all; while I am everywhere used for roofs and houses. The Bramble answered: 'You poor creature, if you would only call to mind the axes and saws which are about to hew you down, you would have reason to wish that you had grown up a Bramble, not a Fir-Tree. Better poverty without care, than riches with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27860]]></link><description><![CDATA[Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another. - "On the Cryptic and the Elliptic", 1908.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated; it satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated; it satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time rewarding and maddening - and it is without a doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People talk about it being so heavy, but right now it feels weightless around my neck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35787]]></link><description><![CDATA[People talk about it being so heavy, but right now it feels weightless around my neck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can, using ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23680]]></link><description><![CDATA[Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can, using only their hands and feet, make some of the worst movies in the history of the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She is a wall of brass; You shall not pass! You shall not pass!  Spring up like Summer grass, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61133]]></link><description><![CDATA[She is a wall of brass; You shall not pass! You shall not pass!  Spring up like Summer grass,   Surge at her, mass on mass,    Still shall you break like glass,     Splinter and break like shivered glass,      But pass?       You shall not pass!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28023]]></link><description><![CDATA[In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here's to the maiden of bashful fifteen; Here's to the widow of fifty;  Here's to the flaunting, extravagant quean; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here's to the maiden of bashful fifteen; Here's to the widow of fifty;  Here's to the flaunting, extravagant quean;   And here's to the housewife that's thrifty.    (Chorus:) Let the toast pass,--     Drink to the lass,      I'll warrant she'll prove an excuse for the glass.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First of all, I could not believe it, ... Nobody in their right mind would have expected this drop in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40858]]></link><description><![CDATA[First of all, I could not believe it, ... Nobody in their right mind would have expected this drop in pressure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17503]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are almost always guilty of the hate we encounter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18489]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are almost always guilty of the hate we encounter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We call on him to represent and respect his constituents, not further his own ego, as he is by remaining ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36538]]></link><description><![CDATA[We call on him to represent and respect his constituents, not further his own ego, as he is by remaining totally out of touch in the Big Brother house.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every person, all the events of your life are drawn there because you have them there. What you choose to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6108]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every person, all the events of your life are drawn there because you have them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People in the community who served on our advisory panel about the project told us they wanted the station to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41659]]></link><description><![CDATA[People in the community who served on our advisory panel about the project told us they wanted the station to have a sense of place, an identity as a destination, and that's what these signs are designed to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25759]]></link><description><![CDATA[How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace. I love thee to the level of everyday's Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light. I love thee freely, as men strive for Right; I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise. I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints, -I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee; Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56047]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee; Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not: Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's, and truth's; then if thou fall'st, O Cromwell, Thou fall'st a blessed martyr! -King Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My wife met me at the door the other night in a sexy negligee.Unfortunately, she was just coming home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21335]]></link><description><![CDATA[My wife met me at the door the other night in a sexy negligee.Unfortunately, she was just coming home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The child was diseased at birth, stricken with a hereditary ill that only the most vital men are able to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47893]]></link><description><![CDATA[The child was diseased at birth, stricken with a hereditary ill that only the most vital men are able to shake off. I mean poverty--the most deadly and prevalent of all diseases.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4585]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18716]]></link><description><![CDATA[I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy. Mary Baker Eddy -Ursula K. LeGuin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45406]]></link><description><![CDATA[I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No cause is helpless if it is just. Errors, no matter how popular, carry the seeds of their own destruction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5363]]></link><description><![CDATA[No cause is helpless if it is just. Errors, no matter how popular, carry the seeds of their own destruction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3311]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moderation is commonly firm, and firmness is commonly successful ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42871]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moderation is commonly firm, and firmness is commonly successful]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42871</guid></item></channel></rss>