<?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[The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45360]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one looks at the results so far for Stephen King, it is something of a wash, ... He simply ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28959]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one looks at the results so far for Stephen King, it is something of a wash, ... He simply has made back the money it cost him to pursue this means of reaching his audience with his latest work. For authors who don't have the track record, reputation and built-in audience following of a Stephen King, obviously his example is one that doesn't necessarily encourage them to go out and dismiss their publishers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were down, and for some reason, they just tried to shoot our way back in it. That's not what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40799]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were down, and for some reason, they just tried to shoot our way back in it. That's not what we wanted to do. That's what they wanted us to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12824]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45755]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We never become truly spiritual by sitting down and wishing to become so. You must undertake something so great that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8144]]></link><description><![CDATA[We never become truly spiritual by sitting down and wishing to become so. You must undertake something so great that you cannot accomplish it unaided.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You complain, Velox, that the epigrams which I write are long. You yourself write nothing; your attempts are shorter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14060]]></link><description><![CDATA[You complain, Velox, that the epigrams which I write are long. You yourself write nothing; your attempts are shorter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9564]]></link><description><![CDATA[Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been thesystematic organization of hatreds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47460]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been thesystematic organization of hatreds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where the light wings of Zephyr, oppress'd with perfume, Wax faint o'er the gardens of Gul in her bloom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where the light wings of Zephyr, oppress'd with perfume, Wax faint o'er the gardens of Gul in her bloom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, "At my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60334]]></link><description><![CDATA[A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, "At my age, I don't even buy green bananas."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I went to the copy machine, the medal went to the copy machine, too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35436]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I went to the copy machine, the medal went to the copy machine, too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A liberal is a person whose interests aren't at stake at the moment ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24666]]></link><description><![CDATA[A liberal is a person whose interests aren't at stake at the moment]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The childish idea that prayer is a handle by which we can take hold of God and obtain whatever we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8062]]></link><description><![CDATA[The childish idea that prayer is a handle by which we can take hold of God and obtain whatever we desire, leads to easy disillusionment with both what we had thought to be God and what we had thought to be prayer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Egotism is nature's compensation for mediocrity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Egotism is nature's compensation for mediocrity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give the historians something to write about. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19359]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give the historians something to write about.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1077]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be awfully nice to them going up, because you're gonna meet them all coming down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Methinks I have a great desire to a bottle of hay. Good hay, sweet hay, hath no fellow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Methinks I have a great desire to a bottle of hay. Good hay, sweet hay, hath no fellow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To bee beloved is above all bargaines. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50000]]></link><description><![CDATA[To bee beloved is above all bargaines.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gallantry of mind consists in saying flattering things in an agreeable manner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gallantry of mind consists in saying flattering things in an agreeable manner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a passion for the name of "Mary," For once it was a magic sound to me,  And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43637]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a passion for the name of "Mary," For once it was a magic sound to me,  And still it half calls up the realms of fairy,   Where I beheld what never was to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true source of cheerfulness is benevolence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4148]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true source of cheerfulness is benevolence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can only learn to love by loving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63324]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can only learn to love by loving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rabbi Zusya said that on the Day of Judgment, God would ask him, not why he had not been Moses, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rabbi Zusya said that on the Day of Judgment, God would ask him, not why he had not been Moses, but why he had not been Zusya.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Employ thy time well if thou meanest to get leisure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48967]]></link><description><![CDATA[Employ thy time well if thou meanest to get leisure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a bit of a trade-off. It's exciting to see the new ruins and get that information, but at the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37201]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a bit of a trade-off. It's exciting to see the new ruins and get that information, but at the same time, fire can destroy these sites.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which ... is within the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45909]]></link><description><![CDATA[There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which ... is within the souls of men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and harmful. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60676]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and harmful. If you don't upset people, then that's obscenity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The principle of fashion is . . . the principle of the kaleidoscope. A new year can only bring us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23678]]></link><description><![CDATA[The principle of fashion is . . . the principle of the kaleidoscope. A new year can only bring us a new combination of the same elements; and about once in so often we go back and begin again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My lesbianism is an act of Christian charity. All those women out there praying for a man, and I'm giving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24630]]></link><description><![CDATA[My lesbianism is an act of Christian charity. All those women out there praying for a man, and I'm giving them my share.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I made my money by selling too soon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15903]]></link><description><![CDATA[I made my money by selling too soon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two kinds of totally unacceptable employees -- those who can't do what they're told and those who can't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32321]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two kinds of totally unacceptable employees -- those who can't do what they're told and those who can't do anything else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are more men ennobled by study than by nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58051]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1170   Oh, how precious is time, and how it pains ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6318]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1170   Oh, how precious is time, and how it pains me to see it slide away, while I do so little to any good purpose. Oh, that God would make me more fruitful and spiritual.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Waving the flag at the 1976 Olympics wasn't my idea. It was too much apple pie and ice cream. Not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3422]]></link><description><![CDATA[Waving the flag at the 1976 Olympics wasn't my idea. It was too much apple pie and ice cream. Not that I don't love my country, but I felt it was my victory up there, I put all the time into it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A period of travel and relaxation when you take twice the clothes and half the money you need. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60314]]></link><description><![CDATA[A period of travel and relaxation when you take twice the clothes and half the money you need.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Close don't count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Close don't count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride. - Lacon, 1825. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2877]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride. - Lacon, 1825.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We talked all week about hitting the ball to right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30576]]></link><description><![CDATA[We talked all week about hitting the ball to right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This center is dedicated to long-term research, looking at future innovations and concepts that will be commercially available five to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40531]]></link><description><![CDATA[This center is dedicated to long-term research, looking at future innovations and concepts that will be commercially available five to 10 years down the road.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is that which, knowing the Lord's will, goes and does it; or, not knowing it, stands and waits, content ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8252]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is that which, knowing the Lord's will, goes and does it; or, not knowing it, stands and waits, content in ignorance as in knowledge, because God wills -- neither pressing into the hidden future, nor careless of the knowledge which opens the path of action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep your sense of humor. There's enough stress in the rest of your life to let bad shots ruin a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29128]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep your sense of humor. There's enough stress in the rest of your life to let bad shots ruin a game you're supposed to enjoy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The opponents and I are really one. My strength and skills only half of the equation. The other half is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45026]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opponents and I are really one. My strength and skills only half of the equation. The other half is theirs. An opponent is someone whose strength joined to yours creates a certain result.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is a rebel? A man who says no ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53143]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is a rebel? A man who says no]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man has three characters -- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5664]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man has three characters -- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5664</guid></item></channel></rss>