<?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[Marimekko meets Machu Picchu. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marimekko meets Machu Picchu.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Parent of golden dreams, Romance! Auspicious queen of childish joys,  Who lead'st along, in airy dance,   Thy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Parent of golden dreams, Romance! Auspicious queen of childish joys,  Who lead'st along, in airy dance,   Thy votive train of girls and boys.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are some mature birds that have short beards from a lack of melanin that makes the beard weak and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37110]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are some mature birds that have short beards from a lack of melanin that makes the beard weak and it will break. The best method is to wait and see the bird in full strut. If his fan (tail feathers) form an even-edged circle, then he's mature. If there are shorter feathers on the edges of the fan with taller feathers in the middle, then it's a jake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that ye ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5632]]></link><description><![CDATA[And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that ye might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, that no one of you be puffed up for one against another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In addition to the economic impact dollar figure, of particular interest to us was that the All-Star Game and related ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40411]]></link><description><![CDATA[In addition to the economic impact dollar figure, of particular interest to us was that the All-Star Game and related events generated nearly 20,000 hotel room nights, with an average lodging expense of $403 per group.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sensations sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15545]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sensations sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Practice, which some regard as a chore, should be approached as just about the most pleasant recreation ever devised. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53171]]></link><description><![CDATA[Practice, which some regard as a chore, should be approached as just about the most pleasant recreation ever devised.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Phidias made the statue of Venue at Elis with one foot upon the shell of a tortoise, to signify two ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61934]]></link><description><![CDATA[Phidias made the statue of Venue at Elis with one foot upon the shell of a tortoise, to signify two great duties of a virtuous woman, which are to keep home and be silent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where God has his church the Devil will have his chapel ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where God has his church the Devil will have his chapel]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The branded industry is losing drugs from patent and the generic industry is circling like buzzards to pick them up. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31166]]></link><description><![CDATA[The branded industry is losing drugs from patent and the generic industry is circling like buzzards to pick them up. It's wonderful for the generic pharmaceutical industry. There's more food on the plate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11348]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65799]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acton's Law: Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24348]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acton's Law: Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The foundation of all morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying; to give up pretending to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53671]]></link><description><![CDATA[The foundation of all morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying; to give up pretending to believe that for which there is no evidence, and repeating unintelligible propositions about things beyond the possibilities of knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15006]]></link><description><![CDATA[At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Devotion is not a passing emotion: it is a fixed, enduring habit of mind permeating the whole life and shaping ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Devotion is not a passing emotion: it is a fixed, enduring habit of mind permeating the whole life and shaping every action. It rests upon a conviction that God is the Sole Source of Holiness, and that our part is to lean upon Him and be absolutely guided and governed by Him; and it necessitates an abiding hold on Him, a perpetual habit of listening for His Voice within the heart, as of readiness to obey the dictates of that Voice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know the media end of things and not much about the business end. Leslie knows the business end but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37802]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know the media end of things and not much about the business end. Leslie knows the business end but not much about the media.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63201]]></link><description><![CDATA[Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea makes you laugh, and you're instantly sympathetic. We've all lived through that moment where we had sex for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39262]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea makes you laugh, and you're instantly sympathetic. We've all lived through that moment where we had sex for the first time. You're terrified, so the idea of a guy so scared he let it get past him is relatable to us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Explaining why he refused induction into the Army. I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Congs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57711]]></link><description><![CDATA[Explaining why he refused induction into the Army. I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Congs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you're going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humble Hearts have humble desires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humble Hearts have humble desires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. [Gene!:5]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20011]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. [Gene!:5].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11019]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46622]]></link><description><![CDATA[More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mine is better than ours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48435]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mine is better than ours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you did wed my sister for her wealth, Then for her wealth's sake use her with more kindness:  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45247]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you did wed my sister for her wealth, Then for her wealth's sake use her with more kindness:  Or if you like elsewhere, do it by stealth;   Muffle your false love with some show of blindness:    Let not my sister read it in your eye;     Be not thy tongue thy own shame's orator;      Look sweet, spear fair, become disloyalty;       Apparel vice like virtue's harbinger;        Bear a fair presence, though your heart be tainted;         Teach sin the carriage of a holy saint;          Be secret-false: what need she be acquainted?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45247</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[Folly growes without watering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Folly growes without watering.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15029]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that we have not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20478]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A litle wind kindles; much puts out the fire. [A little wind kindles; much puts out the fire.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49044]]></link><description><![CDATA[A litle wind kindles; much puts out the fire. [A little wind kindles; much puts out the fire.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My brother Mark still lives in the house we grew up in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37977]]></link><description><![CDATA[My brother Mark still lives in the house we grew up in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5546]]></link><description><![CDATA[We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57507]]></link><description><![CDATA[You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave -- win or lose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62179]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whither away, Bluebird, Whither away?  The blast is chill, yet in the upper sky   Thou still canst ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4367]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whither away, Bluebird, Whither away?  The blast is chill, yet in the upper sky   Thou still canst find the color of thy wing,    The hue of May.     Warbler, why speed, thy southern flight? ah, why,      Thou, too, whose song first told us of the Spring?       Whither away?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22909]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry, therefore, we will call Musical Thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry, therefore, we will call Musical Thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God dropped a spark down into everyone, And if we find and fan it to a blaze,  It'll spring ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53821]]></link><description><![CDATA[God dropped a spark down into everyone, And if we find and fan it to a blaze,  It'll spring up and glow, like--like the sun,   And light the wandering out of stony ways.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All has been looted, betrayed, sold; black death's wing flashed ahead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29395]]></link><description><![CDATA[All has been looted, betrayed, sold; black death's wing flashed ahead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know they're not selling out. This is something they take very, very seriously, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42725]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know they're not selling out. This is something they take very, very seriously,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was keen to return home and, although we rate him highly here, we did not like to see him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35078]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was keen to return home and, although we rate him highly here, we did not like to see him unhappy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And to hie him home, at evening's close, To sweet repast, and calm repose.  . . . .  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61390]]></link><description><![CDATA[And to hie him home, at evening's close, To sweet repast, and calm repose.  . . . .   From toil we wins his spirits light,    From busy day the peaceful night;     Rich, from the very want of wealth,      In heaven's best treasures, peace and health.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have never known a man who was sensual in his youth, who was high-minded when old. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55159]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have never known a man who was sensual in his youth, who was high-minded when old.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9900]]></link><description><![CDATA["The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring a mark of everlasting infamy on the present generation – enlightened as it is – if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of designing men." -Samuel Adams]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46278]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46278</guid></item></channel></rss>