<?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[One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filledwith noble risks, is worth whole years of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22621]]></link><description><![CDATA[One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filledwith noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltrydecorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish watersthrough a marsh, without either honour or observation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path withheart!. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21354]]></link><description><![CDATA[All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path withheart!.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate everybody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35705]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate everybody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Parking, traffic, those are issues tied to urban life. It's not necessarily a bad thing, ... I don't know how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29478]]></link><description><![CDATA[Parking, traffic, those are issues tied to urban life. It's not necessarily a bad thing, ... I don't know how a merchant can think there's too much traffic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It doesn't seem like very long ago that we were the new kids on the block, and really tried to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29989]]></link><description><![CDATA[It doesn't seem like very long ago that we were the new kids on the block, and really tried to claw our way up from the rear of the pack, so it's a very exciting feeling for us to come in and be as confident as we are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44163]]></link><description><![CDATA[In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conductor, when you receive a fare, Punch in the presence of the passenjare.  A blue trip slip for an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conductor, when you receive a fare, Punch in the presence of the passenjare.  A blue trip slip for an eight-cent fare,   A buff trip slip for a six-cent fare,    A pink trip slip for a three-cent fare,     Punch in the presence of the passenjare!      Punch, brothers! punch with care!       Punch in the presence of the passenjare!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the duty of children to wait on elders, and not the elders on children ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13042]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the duty of children to wait on elders, and not the elders on children]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are my hobby, if I ever got married I'd have to give it up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are my hobby, if I ever got married I'd have to give it up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53730]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/922]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He best can paint them who shall feel them most. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45428]]></link><description><![CDATA[He best can paint them who shall feel them most.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man, wretched man, whene'er he stoops to sin, Feels, with the act, a strong remorse within. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man, wretched man, whene'er he stoops to sin, Feels, with the act, a strong remorse within.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20274]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Close up his eyes and draw the curtain close; And let us all to meditation. -King Henry VI. Part II. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Close up his eyes and draw the curtain close; And let us all to meditation. -King Henry VI. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["He started hating me, cause I couldn't laugh at his jokes. I just started finding it impossible to laugh at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23303]]></link><description><![CDATA["He started hating me, cause I couldn't laugh at his jokes. I just started finding it impossible to laugh at his jokes the way I used to."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may see me, fat and shining, with well-cared for hide, . . . a hog from Epicurus' herd. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58498]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may see me, fat and shining, with well-cared for hide, . . . a hog from Epicurus' herd. [Lat., Me pinguem et nitidum bene curata cute vises,  . . . Epicuri de grege porcum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Babies haven't any hair; Old men's heads are just as bare; between the cradle and the grave lie a haircut ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Babies haven't any hair; Old men's heads are just as bare; between the cradle and the grave lie a haircut and a shave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom rings where opinions clash. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom rings where opinions clash.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His experiences in having led other organizations toward national awards proved to be invaluable in our own march toward the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38093]]></link><description><![CDATA[His experiences in having led other organizations toward national awards proved to be invaluable in our own march toward the Baldrige.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can never really be prepared for that which is wholly new. We have to adjust ourselves, and every radical ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52362]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can never really be prepared for that which is wholly new. We have to adjust ourselves, and every radical adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem: we undergo a test, we have to prove ourselves. It needs inordinate self-confidence to face drastic change without inner trembling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26831]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wisdom of our ancestors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2478]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wisdom of our ancestors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The body is the terminal incubator. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29518]]></link><description><![CDATA[The body is the terminal incubator.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've directed traditional operas and it's been wonderful. But despite all the work they require, operettas are just plain fun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31581]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've directed traditional operas and it's been wonderful. But despite all the work they require, operettas are just plain fun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64756]]></link><description><![CDATA[To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O lovely lily clean, O lily springing green,  O lily bursting white,   Dear lily of delight,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25087]]></link><description><![CDATA[O lovely lily clean, O lily springing green,  O lily bursting white,   Dear lily of delight,    Spring in my heart agen     That I may flower to men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...the cosmology of a given age is not the result of unilinear, "scientific" development, but rather the most striking, imaginative ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56789]]></link><description><![CDATA[...the cosmology of a given age is not the result of unilinear, "scientific" development, but rather the most striking, imaginative symbol of its mentality- the projection of its conflicts, prejudice and specific ways of double-think onto the graceful sky.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That suggests that the size of the average house is stabilizing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35894]]></link><description><![CDATA[That suggests that the size of the average house is stabilizing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Private patients, if they do not like me, can go elsewhere; but the poor devils in the hospital I am ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Private patients, if they do not like me, can go elsewhere; but the poor devils in the hospital I am bound to take care of.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24071]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64173]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52674]]></link><description><![CDATA[I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39589]]></link><description><![CDATA[And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44860]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth... But amusing? Never.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Riches are deservedly despised by a man of honor, because a well-stored chest intercepts the truth. [Lat., Opes invisae merito ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Riches are deservedly despised by a man of honor, because a well-stored chest intercepts the truth. [Lat., Opes invisae merito sunt forti viro,  Quia dives arca veram laudem intercipit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2060]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am, Sir, a brother of the angle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16087]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am, Sir, a brother of the angle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only way to be happy is to love to suffer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58215]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only way to be happy is to love to suffer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893  If man is man and God is God, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7686]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893  If man is man and God is God, to live without prayer is not merely an awful thing: it is an infinitely foolish thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45350]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one loves the man whom he fears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15493]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one loves the man whom he fears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We praise old times, but show no curiosity about modern events. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51673]]></link><description><![CDATA[We praise old times, but show no curiosity about modern events.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We could have done this movie very differently had we shot on the streets of Harlem and taken a 40-day ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33326]]></link><description><![CDATA[We could have done this movie very differently had we shot on the streets of Harlem and taken a 40-day shooting schedule.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few things are impossible to diligence and skill ... Great works are performed, not by strength, but perseverance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12304]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few things are impossible to diligence and skill ... Great works are performed, not by strength, but perseverance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Texas 'redistricting' hasouted Tom Delay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/251]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Texas 'redistricting' hasouted Tom Delay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/251</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[Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16887]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16887</guid></item></channel></rss>