<?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[From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54579]]></link><description><![CDATA[From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9274]]></link><description><![CDATA[For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having children with someone is the real bond. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having children with someone is the real bond.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart of the wise in in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48563]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart of the wise in in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the Greeks said, "Whom the gods love die young," they probably meant, as Lord Sankey suggested, that those favored ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52349]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the Greeks said, "Whom the gods love die young," they probably meant, as Lord Sankey suggested, that those favored by the gods stay young till the day they die; young and playful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18129]]></link><description><![CDATA[At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our seasons have no fixed returns, Without our will they come and go;  At noon our sudden summer burns, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our seasons have no fixed returns, Without our will they come and go;  At noon our sudden summer burns,   Ere sunset all is snow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is only chatter, friends are all that matter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is only chatter, friends are all that matter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66144]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34932]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the newspapers have got nothing else to talk about, they cut loose on the young. The young are always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62597]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the newspapers have got nothing else to talk about, they cut loose on the young. The young are always news. If they are up to something, that's news. If they aren't, that's news too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26223]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marxists are people whose insides are torn up day after day because they want to rule the world and no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marxists are people whose insides are torn up day after day because they want to rule the world and no one will even publish their letter to the editor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47923]]></link><description><![CDATA[You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power (n): The only narcotic regulated by the SEC instead of the FDA. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47428]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power (n): The only narcotic regulated by the SEC instead of the FDA.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been going to this high school for 7 and 1/2 years, I'm no dummy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32286]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been going to this high school for 7 and 1/2 years, I'm no dummy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The World's a bubble, and the Life of Man less than a span: In his conception wretched, from the womb ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24842]]></link><description><![CDATA[The World's a bubble, and the Life of Man less than a span: In his conception wretched, from the womb so to the tomb.  Curst from his cradle, and brought up to years with cares and fears.   Who then to frail mortality shall trust,    But limns the water, or but writes in dust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't do this now people will not be able to recover. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29099]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't do this now people will not be able to recover.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Katherine of Alexandria, Martyr, 4th century    On humanist assumptions, life leads to nothing; and every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Katherine of Alexandria, Martyr, 4th century    On humanist assumptions, life leads to nothing; and every pretense that it does not is a deceit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's clearly a very special, gifted player. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36112]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's clearly a very special, gifted player.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I got the script to this movie, The Good Girl, I read it in an hour. The writer, Mike ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37790]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I got the script to this movie, The Good Girl, I read it in an hour. The writer, Mike White, has an ability to create characters that are so creepy and dysfunctional and human, with this duality that makes people feel empathy for them at the same time. My first thought was 'Was this sent to the right person?' I called my agent. 'Are they sure? Let's say yes before they realize they've sent it to the wrong person!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So on the tip of his subduing tongue All kinds of arguments and question deep,  All replication prompt and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59489]]></link><description><![CDATA[So on the tip of his subduing tongue All kinds of arguments and question deep,  All replication prompt and reason strong,   For his advantage still did wake and sleep.    To make the weeper laugh, the laugher weep,     He had the dialect and different skill,      Catching all passions in his craft of will; . . .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old houses mended, Cost little less than new, before they're ended. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3014]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old houses mended, Cost little less than new, before they're ended.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[American labor, which is the capital of our workingmen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23928]]></link><description><![CDATA[American labor, which is the capital of our workingmen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20665]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The novel is more of a whisper, whereas the stage is a shout. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59045]]></link><description><![CDATA[The novel is more of a whisper, whereas the stage is a shout.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then press my lips, where plays a flame of bliss,-- A pure and holy love-light,--and forsake  The angel for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then press my lips, where plays a flame of bliss,-- A pure and holy love-light,--and forsake  The angel for the woman in a kiss,   At once I wis,    My soul will wake!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are a lot of future applications. Videoconferencing through your television is one of the things they're talking about, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42644]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are a lot of future applications. Videoconferencing through your television is one of the things they're talking about, or being able to chat with friends as the television program is going on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel that it's important for the college environment and for the students to be exposed to the issues and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39956]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel that it's important for the college environment and for the students to be exposed to the issues and opportunities the world has to offer. We could all stand to be educated and learn about different cultures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amiable weakness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61332]]></link><description><![CDATA[Amiable weakness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only gift is a portion of thyself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17285]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only gift is a portion of thyself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything starts with yourself -- with you making up your mind about what you're going to do with your life. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything starts with yourself -- with you making up your mind about what you're going to do with your life. I tell kids that it's a cruel world, and that the world will bend them either left or right, and it's up to them to decide which way to bend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20493]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3462]]></link><description><![CDATA[I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It may do good; pride hath no other glass To show itself but pride, for supple knees  Feed arrogance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48208]]></link><description><![CDATA[It may do good; pride hath no other glass To show itself but pride, for supple knees  Feed arrogance and are the proud man's fees.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have been encouraged by the results of a couple successful campaigns that we've featured to help promote them, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31640]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have been encouraged by the results of a couple successful campaigns that we've featured to help promote them, but the overall impact of the format has still been nominal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15181]]></link><description><![CDATA[Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art of living well and the art of dying well are one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64262]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First he wrought, and afterward he taught. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25379]]></link><description><![CDATA[First he wrought, and afterward he taught.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's a staggering amount, when you consider that the federal government purchases about $5 billion of electricity per year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34188]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's a staggering amount, when you consider that the federal government purchases about $5 billion of electricity per year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sins become more subtle as you grow older: you commit sins of despair rather than lust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56408]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sins become more subtle as you grow older: you commit sins of despair rather than lust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20939]]></link><description><![CDATA[An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who do remember it will find new ways to screw it up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45692]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who do remember it will find new ways to screw it up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63545]]></link><description><![CDATA[True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not only ought fortune to be pictured on a wheel, but every thing else in this world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49665]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not only ought fortune to be pictured on a wheel, but every thing else in this world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All his successors gone before him have done 't; and all his ancestors that come after him may. -The Merry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55343]]></link><description><![CDATA[All his successors gone before him have done 't; and all his ancestors that come after him may. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55343</guid></item></channel></rss>