<?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[What feeling is so nice as a child's hand in yours? So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5921]]></link><description><![CDATA[What feeling is so nice as a child's hand in yours? So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To him that will, waies are not wanting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50008]]></link><description><![CDATA[To him that will, waies are not wanting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes it seems that we are successful only because we have not tried hard enough for our best. We do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42247]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes it seems that we are successful only because we have not tried hard enough for our best. We do the hard thing, and one day we succeed, and many things are made plain to us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not without art, but yet to Nature true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43799]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not without art, but yet to Nature true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was prettily devised of Aesop: The fly sat upon the axle-tree of the chariot-wheel, and said, What a dust ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16219]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was prettily devised of Aesop: The fly sat upon the axle-tree of the chariot-wheel, and said, What a dust do I raise!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exclusive property is a theft against nature. [Fr., La propriete exclusive est un vol dans la nature.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Exclusive property is a theft against nature. [Fr., La propriete exclusive est un vol dans la nature.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approval ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2973]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In any closet, you can find it, if it is too small, or out of style, or there is just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27768]]></link><description><![CDATA[In any closet, you can find it, if it is too small, or out of style, or there is just one of it where there should be two. I am not sure what this is, but an `F' would only dignify it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best system is to have one party govern and the other party watch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45591]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best system is to have one party govern and the other party watch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing enduring in life for a woman except what she builds in a man's heart ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26239]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing enduring in life for a woman except what she builds in a man's heart]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a respect for the people [American Indians], but I have a right to do what I'm doing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37448]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a respect for the people [American Indians], but I have a right to do what I'm doing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death to all fanatics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death to all fanatics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws. [Fr., La ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws. [Fr., La grammaire, qui sait regenter jusqu'aux rois,  Et les fait, la main haute, obeir a ses lois.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just sitting on a room and taking a test like that, you don't know what to expect. It picks your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33543]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just sitting on a room and taking a test like that, you don't know what to expect. It picks your brain apart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If o'er the dial glides a shade, redeem The time for lo! it passes like a dream;  But if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58305]]></link><description><![CDATA[If o'er the dial glides a shade, redeem The time for lo! it passes like a dream;  But if 'tis all a blank, then mark the loss   Of hours unblest by shadows from the cross.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58020]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dear Ted: Thanks for the invitation to question four distinguished liberal journalists. But 11:30 PM is long past my bedtime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dear Ted: Thanks for the invitation to question four distinguished liberal journalists. But 11:30 PM is long past my bedtime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They who forgive most shall be most forgiven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53338]]></link><description><![CDATA[They who forgive most shall be most forgiven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that plants thorns must never expect to gather roses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54420]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that plants thorns must never expect to gather roses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12285]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60111]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who goeth a borrowing Goeth a sorrowing.  Few lend (but fools)   Their working tools.   - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4747]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who goeth a borrowing Goeth a sorrowing.  Few lend (but fools)   Their working tools.   - Thomas Tusser,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52649]]></link><description><![CDATA[Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once a man is on hand, a woman tends to stop believing in her own beliefs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once a man is on hand, a woman tends to stop believing in her own beliefs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One swallow alone does not make the summer. [Sp., Una golondrina sola no hace verano.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58432]]></link><description><![CDATA[One swallow alone does not make the summer. [Sp., Una golondrina sola no hace verano.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Within a stone's throw of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Within a stone's throw of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're just sort of searching for this "thing" and sometimes you get it and sometimes you don't. All music is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38352]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're just sort of searching for this "thing" and sometimes you get it and sometimes you don't. All music is imperfect, but in jazz since you're improvising, at least the way I play, I'm trying to follow my train of thought in a solo.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How quickly nature falls into revolt When gold becomes her object!  For this the foolish overcareful fathers   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17784]]></link><description><![CDATA[How quickly nature falls into revolt When gold becomes her object!  For this the foolish overcareful fathers   Have broke their sleep with thoughts, their brains with care.    Their bones with industry.     For this they have engrossed and piled up      The cankered heaps of strange-achieved gold;       For this they have been thoughtful to invest        Their sons with arts and martial exercises.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And behind every man who's a failure there's a woman, too! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27135]]></link><description><![CDATA[And behind every man who's a failure there's a woman, too!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The media tends to report rumors, speculations, and projections as facts... How does the media do this? By quoting some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26650]]></link><description><![CDATA[The media tends to report rumors, speculations, and projections as facts... How does the media do this? By quoting some "expert"... you can always find some expert who will say something hopelessly hopeless about anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57695]]></link><description><![CDATA[Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground--long heath, brown furze, anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground--long heath, brown furze, anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain, and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44647]]></link><description><![CDATA[A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain, and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles the rain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not playing with intensity all the time. We can't just have two innings and then lie down; our little ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35401]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not playing with intensity all the time. We can't just have two innings and then lie down; our little mental errors make the games look bad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These $100,000 UPS systems aren't performing as they should, ... The total number of batteries cost probably in the range ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33826]]></link><description><![CDATA[These $100,000 UPS systems aren't performing as they should, ... The total number of batteries cost probably in the range of $7,000]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In times of stress, be bold and valiant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57977]]></link><description><![CDATA[In times of stress, be bold and valiant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9468]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46452]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66011]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54677]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the colors, but where exactly does the one first blendingly enter into the other? So with sanity and insanity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9956]]></link><description><![CDATA[And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God preaches, a noted clergyman, And the sermon is never long;  So instead of getting to heaven at last, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48082]]></link><description><![CDATA[God preaches, a noted clergyman, And the sermon is never long;  So instead of getting to heaven at last,   I'm going all along.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great crimes of the twentieth century were committed not by money-grubbing capitalists but by dedicated idealists. Lenin, Stalin, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17354]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great crimes of the twentieth century were committed not by money-grubbing capitalists but by dedicated idealists. Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler were contemptuous of money. The passage from the nineteenth to the twentieth century has been a passage from considerations of money to considerations of power. How naive the cliche that money is the root of evil!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blindness Hatred is blind, as well as love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4325]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blindness Hatred is blind, as well as love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53076]]></link><description><![CDATA[What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that has ears to hear, let him stuff them with cotton. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18993]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that has ears to hear, let him stuff them with cotton.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Achievement results from work realizing ambition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28371]]></link><description><![CDATA[Achievement results from work realizing ambition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12544]]></link><description><![CDATA[If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12544</guid></item></channel></rss>