<?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[Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["I feel so fortunate to be 22 right now and having three [grammy awards] under my belt, which is amazing.'' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3577]]></link><description><![CDATA["I feel so fortunate to be 22 right now and having three [grammy awards] under my belt, which is amazing.'']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to hold a man is in your arms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1618]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to hold a man is in your arms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A room without books is a body without soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28140]]></link><description><![CDATA[A room without books is a body without soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shall Life renew these bodies? Of a truthAll death will he annul, all tears assuage?Or fill these void veins full ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shall Life renew these bodies? Of a truthAll death will he annul, all tears assuage?Or fill these void veins full again with youthAnd wash with an immortal water age?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a significant Latin proverb; to wit: Who will guard the guards? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60644]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a significant Latin proverb; to wit: Who will guard the guards?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lie lightly on my ashes, gentle earthe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14087]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lie lightly on my ashes, gentle earthe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13826]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scot is a tremendous player. I look forward to him anchoring our defense on what I hope will be a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scot is a tremendous player. I look forward to him anchoring our defense on what I hope will be a very strong team in 2006.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is gold for you. Sell me your good report. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4909]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is gold for you. Sell me your good report.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bernard always had a few prayers in the hall and some whiskey afterwards as he was rather pious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bernard always had a few prayers in the hall and some whiskey afterwards as he was rather pious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is an orientation of the spirit, an orientation of the heart. Itis not the conviction that something will turn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is an orientation of the spirit, an orientation of the heart. Itis not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certaintythat something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hope this cooperation will develop even more in the future. We emphasize (that) we praise the important role China ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40144]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hope this cooperation will develop even more in the future. We emphasize (that) we praise the important role China plays regionally and internationally.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My soul is more at rest from the tempter when I am busily employed ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34992]]></link><description><![CDATA[My soul is more at rest from the tempter when I am busily employed]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Political campaigns are designedly made into emotional orgies which endeavor to distract attention from the real issues involved, and they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Political campaigns are designedly made into emotional orgies which endeavor to distract attention from the real issues involved, and they actually paralyze what slight powers of cerebration man can normally muster.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56988]]></link><description><![CDATA[The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This monument is dedicated to a man who loved his people. He became leader at the most difficult time for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28997]]></link><description><![CDATA[This monument is dedicated to a man who loved his people. He became leader at the most difficult time for his country, and we should raise the next generation by his example.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9681]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No question is so difficult to answer as that which the answer is obvious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52780]]></link><description><![CDATA[No question is so difficult to answer as that which the answer is obvious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25369]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no other choice. Failing this duty, he sinks into oblivion. Society, on the other hand, has no obligation toward the poet. A majority by definition, society thinks of itself as having other options than reading verses, no matter how well written. Its failure to do so results in its sinking to that level of locution at which society falls easy prey to a demagogue or a tyrant. This is society's own equivalent of oblivion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy - for friendship's sake. -William Blake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16912]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy - for friendship's sake. -William Blake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One must always tell what one sees. Above all, which is more difficult, one must always see what one sees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44800]]></link><description><![CDATA[One must always tell what one sees. Above all, which is more difficult, one must always see what one sees.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whistling to keep myself from being afraid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whistling to keep myself from being afraid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52552]]></link><description><![CDATA[And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched: Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . then black despair The shadow of a starless night, was thrown  Over the world in which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12021]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . then black despair The shadow of a starless night, was thrown  Over the world in which I moved alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Syracuse will be happy to see that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Syracuse will be happy to see that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66204]]></link><description><![CDATA[True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1074]]></link><description><![CDATA[Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Benigno Aguirre, of the Disaster Research Center at the University of Delaware, has been watching and reading about looters in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30044]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Benigno Aguirre, of the Disaster Research Center at the University of Delaware, has been watching and reading about looters in Louisiana.] It may look from the outside as if they are stealing or breaking the law, ... when in fact some of them are trying to survive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because his wishes were clear, I think this is a very strong case. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because his wishes were clear, I think this is a very strong case.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fire that's closest kept burns most of all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16025]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fire that's closest kept burns most of all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The night has a thousand eyes, And the day but one;  Yet the light of the bright world dies ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14823]]></link><description><![CDATA[The night has a thousand eyes, And the day but one;  Yet the light of the bright world dies   With the dying sun.    The mind has a thousand eyes,     And the heart but one:      Yet the light of a whole life dies       When love is done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How often misused words generate misleading thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62058]]></link><description><![CDATA[How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26031]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Responsibility educates. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54002]]></link><description><![CDATA[Responsibility educates.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one's balance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not changing direction we will continue to move full-steam ahead with our core business, which is Blockbuster stores ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38630]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not changing direction we will continue to move full-steam ahead with our core business, which is Blockbuster stores and Blockbuster online,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two kinds of discontent in this world. The discontent that works, and the discontent that wrings its hands. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10017]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two kinds of discontent in this world. The discontent that works, and the discontent that wrings its hands. The first gets what it wants. The second loses what it has. There's no cure for the first, but success and there's no cure at all for the second.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No, I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered as patriots. This is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8788]]></link><description><![CDATA[No, I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered as patriots. This is one nation under God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1461]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24667]]></link><description><![CDATA[When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8012]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57976]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day,  And with thy bloody and invisible hand  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10773]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day,  And with thy bloody and invisible hand   Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond    Which keeps me pale. Light thickens, and the crow     Makes wing to th' rooky wood.      Good things of day begin to droop and drowse,       While night's black agents to their prey do rouse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are excited about this step in the franchise registry project. The registry is a breakthrough effort to cut red ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28542]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are excited about this step in the franchise registry project. The registry is a breakthrough effort to cut red tape, and we believe it will greatly up the approval process on franchise loans.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you're between any sort of devil and the deep blue sea, the deep blue sea sometimes looks very inviting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12185]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you're between any sort of devil and the deep blue sea, the deep blue sea sometimes looks very inviting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12697]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12697</guid></item></channel></rss>