<?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 poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25360]]></link><description><![CDATA[The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee will spend a whole yeares rent at one meales meate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49488]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee will spend a whole yeares rent at one meales meate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Twilight, a timid, fawn, went glimmering by, And Night, the dark-blue hunter, followed fast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59933]]></link><description><![CDATA[Twilight, a timid, fawn, went glimmering by, And Night, the dark-blue hunter, followed fast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one should be left behind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34205]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one should be left behind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The great questions of the day] are not decided by speeches and majority votes, but by blood and iron. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52759]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The great questions of the day] are not decided by speeches and majority votes, but by blood and iron.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Days are scrolls: Write on them only what you wantremembered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Days are scrolls: Write on them only what you wantremembered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Making copies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Making copies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would much rather have regrets about not doing what people said, than regretting not doing what my heart led ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43239]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would much rather have regrets about not doing what people said, than regretting not doing what my heart led me to and wondering what life had been like if I'd just been myself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11299]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo clinic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo clinic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of us ask for advice when we know the answer but we want a different one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1162]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of us ask for advice when we know the answer but we want a different one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hope that you will tell as many people as you can about the archives so people can come and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37960]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hope that you will tell as many people as you can about the archives so people can come and use it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No conclusion has been reached ... there's still no word what caused this. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33812]]></link><description><![CDATA[No conclusion has been reached ... there's still no word what caused this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15707]]></link><description><![CDATA[If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/596]]></link><description><![CDATA[To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66901]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Generally, employees who file complaints of discrimination do so as a last resort. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Generally, employees who file complaints of discrimination do so as a last resort.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been spoiled. We didn't have a lot of money but creatively, they were great. When I came into the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33994]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been spoiled. We didn't have a lot of money but creatively, they were great. When I came into the meeting after the first screening I had ten times more notes than they had.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Immodest words admit of no defence; For want of decency is want of sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Immodest words admit of no defence; For want of decency is want of sense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marry because you have drank with the king, And the king hath so graciously pledged you,  You shall no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marry because you have drank with the king, And the king hath so graciously pledged you,  You shall no more be called shoemakers.   But you and yours to the world's end    Shall be called the trade of the gentle craft.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I remember the silence, the eerie sound of silence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28879]]></link><description><![CDATA[I remember the silence, the eerie sound of silence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No, he was no such charlatan-- Count de Hoboken Flash-in-the-Pan--  Full of gasconade and bravado,   But a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61427]]></link><description><![CDATA[No, he was no such charlatan-- Count de Hoboken Flash-in-the-Pan--  Full of gasconade and bravado,   But a regular, rich Don Rataplane,    Santa Claus de la Muscavado,     Senor Grandissimo Bastinado!      His was the rental of half Havana       And all Matanzas; and Santa Ana,        Rich as he was, could hardly hold         A candle to light the mines of gold          Our Cuban owned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like to come up with new formats that are tailor-made for each market. In Houston, we saw there was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28901]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like to come up with new formats that are tailor-made for each market. In Houston, we saw there was an opportunity to go after Latinos that were bilingual regardless of generation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right now there is no sense of urgency and no accountability. When we tell people that they are planning for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right now there is no sense of urgency and no accountability. When we tell people that they are planning for the evacuation of only 20 percent of the people, they sign the petition right away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Believe me, the gods spare the afflicted, and do not always oppress those who are unfortunate. [Lat., Crede mihi, miseris ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Believe me, the gods spare the afflicted, and do not always oppress those who are unfortunate. [Lat., Crede mihi, miseris coelestia numina parcunt;  Nec semper laesos, et sine fine, premunt.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: they try to havemore things, or more money, in order to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21876]]></link><description><![CDATA[Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: they try to havemore things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want to theywill be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must firstbe who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have whatyou want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Last year it moved late, so people sat in base camp all May just waiting for an opportunity to go. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30876]]></link><description><![CDATA[Last year it moved late, so people sat in base camp all May just waiting for an opportunity to go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Property is a central economic institution of any society, and private property is the central institution of a free society. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Property is a central economic institution of any society, and private property is the central institution of a free society.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosperity doth bewitch men, seeming clear; As seas do laugh, show white, when rocks are near. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48499]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity doth bewitch men, seeming clear; As seas do laugh, show white, when rocks are near.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48136]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith makes the discords of the present the harmonies of the future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14986]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith makes the discords of the present the harmonies of the future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8825]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59558]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad will be the day for every man when he becomes absolutely contented with the life he is leading, with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7940]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad will be the day for every man when he becomes absolutely contented with the life he is leading, with the thoughts he is thinking, with the deeds he is doing; when there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger, which he knows that he was meant and made to do because he is still, in spite of all, the child of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To make a mountain of a mole-hill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43299]]></link><description><![CDATA[To make a mountain of a mole-hill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22202]]></link><description><![CDATA[The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who died at Azan sends This to comfort all this friends:  Faithful friends! It lies I know  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11166]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who died at Azan sends This to comfort all this friends:  Faithful friends! It lies I know   Pale and white and cold as snow;    And ye say, "Abdallah's dead!"     Weeping at the feet and head.      I can see your falling tears,       I can hear your sighs and prayers;        Yet I smile and whisper this:         I am not the thing you kiss.          Cease your tears and let it lie;           It was mine--it is not I.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Up rose the wild old winter-king, And shook his beard of snow;  "I hear the first young hard-bell ring, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Up rose the wild old winter-king, And shook his beard of snow;  "I hear the first young hard-bell ring,   'Tis time for me to go!    Northward o'er the icy rocks,     Northward o'er the sea,      My daughter comes with sunny locks:       This land's too warm for me!"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fly fishing is a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing, I can only compare to a stick and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fly fishing is a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing, I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The military has mishandled the situation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29788]]></link><description><![CDATA[The military has mishandled the situation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of congress; but I repeat myself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47634]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of congress; but I repeat myself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Handsome is that handsome does. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2820]]></link><description><![CDATA[Handsome is that handsome does.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self esteem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25785]]></link><description><![CDATA[What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a little early, we weren't quite ready yet and all of our funding wasn't there. But we felt, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41497]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a little early, we weren't quite ready yet and all of our funding wasn't there. But we felt, and still feel, that it was the right thing to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So our lives In acts exemplarie, not only winne  Ourselves good Names, but doth to others give   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11676]]></link><description><![CDATA[So our lives In acts exemplarie, not only winne  Ourselves good Names, but doth to others give   Matter for virtuous Deedes, by which wee live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is not good language which all understand not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49787]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is not good language which all understand not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. . . . Decency is very ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11574]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. . . . Decency is very good. Better decent than indecent. But I don't think it's enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4031]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have-for their usefulness. -Thomas Merton.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This peck of troubles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59722]]></link><description><![CDATA[This peck of troubles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59722</guid></item></channel></rss>