<?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[Presse a stick, and it seemes a youth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49718]]></link><description><![CDATA[Presse a stick, and it seemes a youth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the frustrated, freedom from responsibility is more attractive than freedom from restraint. They are eager to barter their independence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47586]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the frustrated, freedom from responsibility is more attractive than freedom from restraint. They are eager to barter their independence for relief from the burdens of willing, deciding and being responsible for inevitable failure. They willingly abdicate the directing of their lives to those who want to plan, command and shoulder all responsibility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11368]]></link><description><![CDATA[He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even though I felt like crying, I did my very best to smile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65698]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even though I felt like crying, I did my very best to smile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43222]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51672]]></link><description><![CDATA[Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bachelor's bed is the most pleasant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48824]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bachelor's bed is the most pleasant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slander is worse than cannibalism ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Slander is worse than cannibalism]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I tried to stop smoking cigarettes by telling myself I just didn't want to smoke, but I didn't believe myself ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56702]]></link><description><![CDATA[I tried to stop smoking cigarettes by telling myself I just didn't want to smoke, but I didn't believe myself]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make yourself indispensable, and you will move up. Act as though you areindispensable, and you will move out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make yourself indispensable, and you will move up. Act as though you areindispensable, and you will move out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56774]]></link><description><![CDATA[Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teaching Children to Love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25908]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teaching Children to Love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The natural law of inertia: Matter will remain at rest or continue in uniform motion in the same straight line ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22557]]></link><description><![CDATA[The natural law of inertia: Matter will remain at rest or continue in uniform motion in the same straight line unless acted upon by some external force.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Lucky Craft Pointer 100 has certainly been the big seller with my customers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40399]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Lucky Craft Pointer 100 has certainly been the big seller with my customers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A thing of beauty is a joy forever; Its loveliness increases; it will never  Pass into nothingness; but still ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50539]]></link><description><![CDATA[A thing of beauty is a joy forever; Its loveliness increases; it will never  Pass into nothingness; but still will keep   A bower quiet for us, and a sleep    Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One solid dish his week-day meal affords, An added pudding solemniz'd the Lord's. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13250]]></link><description><![CDATA[One solid dish his week-day meal affords, An added pudding solemniz'd the Lord's.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45631]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/91]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/91</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a destiny that makes us brothers: None goes his way alone: All that we send into the lives ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4943]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a destiny that makes us brothers: None goes his way alone: All that we send into the lives of others Comes back onto our own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was betrothed that day; I wore a troth kiss on my lips I could not give away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23819]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was betrothed that day; I wore a troth kiss on my lips I could not give away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This $10,000 check means a great deal to the Boys and Girls Club in George County. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37770]]></link><description><![CDATA[This $10,000 check means a great deal to the Boys and Girls Club in George County.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have developed this capability. The heavy-water project today is a reality. This knowledge belongs to Iran. Nobody can take ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35728]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have developed this capability. The heavy-water project today is a reality. This knowledge belongs to Iran. Nobody can take it from us. As they (Europeans) see Iran's determination, they will be forced to show flexibility and accept it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The insurance industry communicates through codes and check-off boxes. If there's no check-off box for you, you don't exist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36881]]></link><description><![CDATA[The insurance industry communicates through codes and check-off boxes. If there's no check-off box for you, you don't exist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here when the labouring fish does at the foot arrive, And finds that by his strength but vainly he doth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here when the labouring fish does at the foot arrive, And finds that by his strength but vainly he doth strive;  His tail takes in his teeth, and bending like a bow,   That's to the compass drawn, aloft himself doth throw:    Then springing at his height, as doth a little wand,     That, bended end to end, and flerted from the hand,      Far off itself doth cast. so does the salmon vaut.       And if at first he fail, his second summersaut        He instantly assays and from his nimble ring,         Still yarking never leaves, until himself he fling          Above the streamful top of the surrounded heap.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot have a chicken in his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1261]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot have a chicken in his pot every Sunday.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9995]]></link><description><![CDATA[What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25645]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Call things by their right names . . . Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Call things by their right names . . . Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I got to know David Allan through a friend about five years ago. When he heard about all our troubles ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41024]]></link><description><![CDATA[I got to know David Allan through a friend about five years ago. When he heard about all our troubles with the hurricanes, he decided to do us a favor and perform here. He hasn't played a place this small in 20 years. He might have a tough guy image, but he has a lot of heart, too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Language helps form the limits of our reality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24038]]></link><description><![CDATA[Language helps form the limits of our reality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The forehead is the gate of the mind. [Lat., Frons est animi janua.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27512]]></link><description><![CDATA[The forehead is the gate of the mind. [Lat., Frons est animi janua.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The houses he makes last till doomsday. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60072]]></link><description><![CDATA[The houses he makes last till doomsday.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People need to have the ability to take care of themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39850]]></link><description><![CDATA[People need to have the ability to take care of themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm pretty sure a lot of people look at Boise State winning this game, ... Everyone is looking at the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35660]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm pretty sure a lot of people look at Boise State winning this game, ... Everyone is looking at the type of team they have and looking at the type of team they think we have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13437]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has been remanded into judicial custody until August 27, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29899]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has been remanded into judicial custody until August 27,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather clean than beg. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29762]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather clean than beg.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9836]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And gazed around them to the left and right With the prophetic eye of appetite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2894]]></link><description><![CDATA[And gazed around them to the left and right With the prophetic eye of appetite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His voice no touch of harmony admits, Irregularly deep, and shrill by fits.  The two extremes appear like man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60912]]></link><description><![CDATA[His voice no touch of harmony admits, Irregularly deep, and shrill by fits.  The two extremes appear like man and wife   Coupled together for the sake of strife.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65592]]></link><description><![CDATA[He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9422]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not the horse that draws the cart, but the oats. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65585]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the horse that draws the cart, but the oats.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great wit to madness sure is near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48946]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great wit to madness sure is near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47115]]></link><description><![CDATA[A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. - "Amendment II".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[High above hate I dwell, O storms! farewell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18850]]></link><description><![CDATA[High above hate I dwell, O storms! farewell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign: that all the dunces are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1083]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in confederacy against him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Browning ... tells us that what won him for Christ was this, that while others tried to soothe his angry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Browning ... tells us that what won him for Christ was this, that while others tried to soothe his angry conscience, and kept urging that, really, things were not nearly so bad as he was making out, Christ looked him in the eyes and told him bluntly that he was a desperate sinner, worse, much worse, even than he realized. And that, queerly enough as you might think, the man was not discomfited but heartened. Here at last, he felt, is one who understands and knows the facts. And since His desperate diagnosis is so accurate, may not His optimism also justify itself even in me. Well does He know what is in human nature, and yet, knowing the worst, He still has confident hope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8389</guid></item></channel></rss>