<?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[For to give is the business of the rich. [Lat., Denn Geben ist Sache des Reichen.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17438]]></link><description><![CDATA[For to give is the business of the rich. [Lat., Denn Geben ist Sache des Reichen.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was losing everything, but the financial loss was least significant. I was walking in circles in a psychiatric hospital ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31631]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was losing everything, but the financial loss was least significant. I was walking in circles in a psychiatric hospital in a depression.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This city, which has taken its place in the history of our century, is now being called upon to help ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41937]]></link><description><![CDATA[This city, which has taken its place in the history of our century, is now being called upon to help launch a new millennium,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lark now leaves his watery nest, And climbing, shakes his dewy wings.  He takes your window for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24092]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lark now leaves his watery nest, And climbing, shakes his dewy wings.  He takes your window for the East   And to implore your light he sings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In an age when man has forgotten his origins and is blind even to his most essential needs for survival, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61277]]></link><description><![CDATA[In an age when man has forgotten his origins and is blind even to his most essential needs for survival, water along with other resources has become the victim of his indifference]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is your mind that matters economically, as much or more than your mouth or hands. In the long run, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15730]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is your mind that matters economically, as much or more than your mouth or hands. In the long run, the most important economic effect of population size and growth is the contribution of additional people to our stock of useful knowledge. And this contribution is large enough in the long run to overcome all the costs of population growth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a disaster ready to happen again. Why is HBO doing this? Is money so important, or are these guys ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30301]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a disaster ready to happen again. Why is HBO doing this? Is money so important, or are these guys who are the big names so important?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12938]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens into that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was a conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think we'll do anything differently. We'll try to put a lot of pressure on them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37155]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think we'll do anything differently. We'll try to put a lot of pressure on them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We got a call, there's been a bomb, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42658]]></link><description><![CDATA[We got a call, there's been a bomb,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53046]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63061]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9985]]></link><description><![CDATA[Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was not really as good as I should have been. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34234]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was not really as good as I should have been.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wish I had a twin, so I could know what I'd look like without plastic surgery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59939]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wish I had a twin, so I could know what I'd look like without plastic surgery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There has been just enough activity on the big, new shiny aircraft front ... to keep both manufacturers feeling and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31733]]></link><description><![CDATA[There has been just enough activity on the big, new shiny aircraft front ... to keep both manufacturers feeling and talking very buoyantly about the future,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fear of life is the favorite disease of the twentieth century. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12508]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fear of life is the favorite disease of the twentieth century.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gloomy calm of idle vacancy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20339]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gloomy calm of idle vacancy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a sickness full of woes,    All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a sickness full of woes,    All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows,    Most barren with best using.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Watch out for emergencies. They are your big chance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Watch out for emergencies. They are your big chance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gardening is about enjoying the smell of things growing in the soil, getting dirty without feeling guilty, and generally taking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17195]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gardening is about enjoying the smell of things growing in the soil, getting dirty without feeling guilty, and generally taking the time to soak up a little peace and serenity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58076]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man so various, that he seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome;  Stiff in opinions, always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48953]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man so various, that he seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome;  Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong.   Was everything by starts, and nothing long;    But in the course of one revolving moon,     Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62649]]></link><description><![CDATA[Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those people who tell me that I'm going to hell while while they are going to heaven somehow make me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those people who tell me that I'm going to hell while while they are going to heaven somehow make me very glad that we're going to separate destinations]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The strength of women is the pretense of weakness, and the weakness of men is the pretense of strength ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61328]]></link><description><![CDATA[The strength of women is the pretense of weakness, and the weakness of men is the pretense of strength]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no such thing as perfect happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50364]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as perfect happiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only those who have learned a lot are in a position to admit how little they know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only those who have learned a lot are in a position to admit how little they know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be afraid to take one large step because you can't cross a chasm in two small leaps. One generation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1394]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be afraid to take one large step because you can't cross a chasm in two small leaps. One generation plants trees, and the next enjoys the shade. If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it. -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teach us to give and not to count the cost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17284]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teach us to give and not to count the cost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The western tide crept up along the sand, And o'er and o'er the sand,  And round and round the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59265]]></link><description><![CDATA[The western tide crept up along the sand, And o'er and o'er the sand,  And round and round the sand,   As far as eye could see    The rolling mist came down and hid the land:     And never home came she.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time, which every day produces, and which most men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20330]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time, which every day produces, and which most men throw away, but which nevertheless will make at the end of it no small deduction for the life of man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With electricity we were wired into a new world, for electricity brought the radio, a "crystal set" and with enough ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13698]]></link><description><![CDATA[With electricity we were wired into a new world, for electricity brought the radio, a "crystal set" and with enough ingenuity, one could tickle the crystal with a cat's whisker and pick up anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessity is the mother of invention. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity is the mother of invention.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Big energy lobbyists may be cheering the bill's enactment, but ordinary Americans had better hold fast to their wallets, ... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29408]]></link><description><![CDATA[Big energy lobbyists may be cheering the bill's enactment, but ordinary Americans had better hold fast to their wallets, ... As gasoline prices careen out of control, the bill keeps America speeding down the wrong road toward more oil consumption, more drilling, and more pollution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor ; spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm really proud of what we've done ? and I say we because it's been the coaches and the community. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38239]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm really proud of what we've done ? and I say we because it's been the coaches and the community.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do not ask people if they are illegal. If someone needs us, we try to serve them the best ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37729]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do not ask people if they are illegal. If someone needs us, we try to serve them the best way possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The equal right of all men to the use of land is as clear as their equal right to breathe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54267]]></link><description><![CDATA[The equal right of all men to the use of land is as clear as their equal right to breathe the air--it is a right proclaimed by the fact of their existence. For we cannot suppose that some men have a right to be in this world, and others no right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do not really see yet radical reform. This cannot be done overnight but it could be done faster. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33548]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do not really see yet radical reform. This cannot be done overnight but it could be done faster.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While rationalism at the individual level is a plea for more personal autonomy from cultural norms, at the social level ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47141]]></link><description><![CDATA[While rationalism at the individual level is a plea for more personal autonomy from cultural norms, at the social level it is often a claim- or arrogation- of power to stifle the autonomy of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without a global revolution in the sphere of human consciousness a morehumane society will not emerge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without a global revolution in the sphere of human consciousness a morehumane society will not emerge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards. -Unknown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards. -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wandered by the brook-side, I wandered by the mill;  I could not hear the brook flow,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4925]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wandered by the brook-side, I wandered by the mill;  I could not hear the brook flow,   The noisy wheel was still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their lips were four red roses on a stalk. -King Richard III. Act iv. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56011]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their lips were four red roses on a stalk. -King Richard III. Act iv. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56011</guid></item></channel></rss>