<?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 world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45403]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46346]]></link><description><![CDATA[The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're trying to be responsible in our management of the Greenway. Everybody wants to save every tree possible, and so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40584]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're trying to be responsible in our management of the Greenway. Everybody wants to save every tree possible, and so do I.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be patient, my soul: thou hath suffered worse than this. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45719]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be patient, my soul: thou hath suffered worse than this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Advertising is the foot on the accelerator, the hand on the throttle, the spur on the flank that keeps our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Advertising is the foot on the accelerator, the hand on the throttle, the spur on the flank that keeps our economy surging forward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cocaine isn't habit-forming. I should know - I've been using it for years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/590]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cocaine isn't habit-forming. I should know - I've been using it for years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11856]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've been preaching about that - play based on what you know you can do well. If we play hard, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41934]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've been preaching about that - play based on what you know you can do well. If we play hard, execute, keep going after the loose basketballs, we can make our own luck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men born only to eat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men born only to eat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18608]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To know her was to love her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25852]]></link><description><![CDATA[To know her was to love her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65054]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm happy when I'm juggling, but I feel like I've gone from, like, 3 balls to 10 -- bowling balls. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40177]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm happy when I'm juggling, but I feel like I've gone from, like, 3 balls to 10 -- bowling balls. But, that's a good problem. I don't really have a complaint about that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/90]]></link><description><![CDATA[The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/90</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I played, I had a natural ability to jump and run, and I just wanted to get bigger and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30473]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I played, I had a natural ability to jump and run, and I just wanted to get bigger and heavier.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fundamental flaw of vulgar thought lies in the fact that it wishes to content itself with motionless imprints of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26489]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fundamental flaw of vulgar thought lies in the fact that it wishes to content itself with motionless imprints of a reality which consists of eternal motion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God keepe me from foure houses, an Vsurers, a Taverne, a Spittle, and a Prison. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49272]]></link><description><![CDATA[God keepe me from foure houses, an Vsurers, a Taverne, a Spittle, and a Prison.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want three million people digesting my private life over their cornflakes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34974]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want three million people digesting my private life over their cornflakes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are coming to the market because they want to have some fair values on which to basically try to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37002]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are coming to the market because they want to have some fair values on which to basically try to consolidate in the future,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46268]]></link><description><![CDATA[The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45837]]></link><description><![CDATA[The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32666]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's gone, and what's past help, Should be past grieve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51542]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's gone, and what's past help, Should be past grieve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58757]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take man's most fantastic invention- God. Man invents God in the image of his longings, in the image of what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52269]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take man's most fantastic invention- God. Man invents God in the image of his longings, in the image of what he wants to be, then proceeds to imitate that image, vie with it, and strive to overcome it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...we see that there are two different kinds of...societies: (a) parasitic societies and (b) producing societies. The former are those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15814]]></link><description><![CDATA[...we see that there are two different kinds of...societies: (a) parasitic societies and (b) producing societies. The former are those which live from hunting, fishing, or merely gleaning. By their economic activities they do not increase, but rather decrease, the amount of wealth in the world. The second kind of societies, producing societies, live by agricultural and pastoral activities. By these activities they seek to increase the amount of wealth in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deserted, at his utmost need, By those his former bounty fed;  On the bare earth exposed he lies,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20891]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deserted, at his utmost need, By those his former bounty fed;  On the bare earth exposed he lies,   With not a friend to close his eyes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The circumstance which gives authors an advantage above all these great masters, is this, that they can multiply their originals; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3507]]></link><description><![CDATA[The circumstance which gives authors an advantage above all these great masters, is this, that they can multiply their originals; or rather, can make copies of their works, to what number they please, which shall be as valuable as the originals themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Victory attained by violence is tantamount to defeat, for it is momentary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Victory attained by violence is tantamount to defeat, for it is momentary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Half of being smart is knowing what you are dumb about. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Half of being smart is knowing what you are dumb about.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18548]]></link><description><![CDATA[The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great minds have purposes; little minds have wishes. Little minds are subdued by misfortunes; great minds rise above them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45330]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great minds have purposes; little minds have wishes. Little minds are subdued by misfortunes; great minds rise above them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the situation has changed, we have been taking gradual steps towards the closure of the missions and submissions, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29815]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the situation has changed, we have been taking gradual steps towards the closure of the missions and submissions,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1107]]></link><description><![CDATA[When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Orleans is the soul of the country. We feel it's important to support the city, and it's music. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41707]]></link><description><![CDATA[New Orleans is the soul of the country. We feel it's important to support the city, and it's music.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One lesson that we might draw from this incident is that we shouldn't be asking so many questions of jurors. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28729]]></link><description><![CDATA[One lesson that we might draw from this incident is that we shouldn't be asking so many questions of jurors. Maybe we should just be asking if they have ever been convicted of a crime, that we ought to know. But, do we really need to know about every arrest and every civil lawsuit and what television programs they watch?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that commits a fault, thinkes every one speakes of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49330]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that commits a fault, thinkes every one speakes of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man is as Heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52397]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man is as Heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dont let life change your goals, because achieving your goals can change your life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dont let life change your goals, because achieving your goals can change your life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The problem with any unwritten law is that you don't know where to go to erase it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24262]]></link><description><![CDATA[The problem with any unwritten law is that you don't know where to go to erase it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beggars must be no choosers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3920]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beggars must be no choosers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All will be gay when noontide wakes anew The buttercups, the little children's dower. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5141]]></link><description><![CDATA[All will be gay when noontide wakes anew The buttercups, the little children's dower.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sunwands turn rain droplets into blackberry drupelets as enkindled okra seeds acknowledge heliocracy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24454]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sunwands turn rain droplets into blackberry drupelets as enkindled okra seeds acknowledge heliocracy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a "fix" of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/589]]></link><description><![CDATA[If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a "fix" of something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than cocaine]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An agreement is a kind of debt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1927]]></link><description><![CDATA[An agreement is a kind of debt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The conditions at Oakley and Columbia are unconscionable, ... This is no way to set juvenile offenders on the course ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28783]]></link><description><![CDATA[The conditions at Oakley and Columbia are unconscionable, ... This is no way to set juvenile offenders on the course to law-abiding and productive lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one can replace a unique person like Peter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28679]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one can replace a unique person like Peter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28679</guid></item></channel></rss>