<?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[Rome, Rome, thou art no more As thou hast been!  On thy seven hills of yore   Thou ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54406]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rome, Rome, thou art no more As thou hast been!  On thy seven hills of yore   Thou sat'st a queen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to understand, for a torture victim, this is an independent confirmation, ... And I would call this the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41272]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to understand, for a torture victim, this is an independent confirmation, ... And I would call this the start of the healing process.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou art a soul in bliss; but I am bound Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou art a soul in bliss; but I am bound Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears  Do scald me like molten lead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abortion will be outlawed in a number of states, but that doesn't mean it will be banned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35579]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abortion will be outlawed in a number of states, but that doesn't mean it will be banned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9977]]></link><description><![CDATA[Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was a shocking gasoline build. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28411]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was a shocking gasoline build.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeatof habit by originality, overcomes everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeatof habit by originality, overcomes everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'd have him here for two or three weeks. He always ate better when I went out there with him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40663]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'd have him here for two or three weeks. He always ate better when I went out there with him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis--once that crisis can be recognized ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10715]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis--once that crisis can be recognized and understood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can't get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9256]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can't get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Interest in this technology abroad was much higher for airport security because there weren't as many issues related to privacy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Interest in this technology abroad was much higher for airport security because there weren't as many issues related to privacy as in the U.S..]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If ballet were easy, they'd call it football ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3705]]></link><description><![CDATA[If ballet were easy, they'd call it football]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62540]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm supposed to do something from 5 to 6 p.m.. We'll see what happens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33850]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm supposed to do something from 5 to 6 p.m.. We'll see what happens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64628]]></link><description><![CDATA[A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meanwhile, there is dancing in yonder green bower, A swarm of young midges, they dance high and low;  'Tis ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Meanwhile, there is dancing in yonder green bower, A swarm of young midges, they dance high and low;  'Tis a sweet little species that lives but one hour,   And the eldest was born half an hour ago.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever did this must have known what they were doing, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32063]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever did this must have known what they were doing,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65222]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59751]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quick decisions are unsafe decisions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Japanese economy is turning around, as evidenced by the machine tool orders. If signs of growth in the economy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30651]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Japanese economy is turning around, as evidenced by the machine tool orders. If signs of growth in the economy continue, eventually they (Japan) will depart from the zero interest rate policy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We twain have met like the ships upon the sea, Who behold an hour's converse, so short, so sweet:  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26818]]></link><description><![CDATA[We twain have met like the ships upon the sea, Who behold an hour's converse, so short, so sweet:  One little hour! and then, away they speed   On lonely paths, through mist, and cloud, and foam,    To meet no more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But all (underclassmen) have a little chip on their shoulder. I don't know what happens in middle school, but they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39063]]></link><description><![CDATA[But all (underclassmen) have a little chip on their shoulder. I don't know what happens in middle school, but they get to high school and they think they know everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why.Then do it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why.Then do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The welcome news is in the letter found; The carrier's not commission'd to expound;  It speaks itself, and what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47811]]></link><description><![CDATA[The welcome news is in the letter found; The carrier's not commission'd to expound;  It speaks itself, and what it does contain,   In all things needful to be known is plain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Re-examine all you have been told . . . Dismiss what insults your Soul. -Walt Whitman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1035]]></link><description><![CDATA[Re-examine all you have been told . . . Dismiss what insults your Soul. -Walt Whitman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose. - What Is Literature? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10589]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose. - What Is Literature?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Momentum is building for smoke-free measures around the region. It's just a matter of time before there is statewide legislation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Momentum is building for smoke-free measures around the region. It's just a matter of time before there is statewide legislation to ban smoking in restaurants and bars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oft expectation fails, and most oft there Where most it promises; and oft it hits  Where hope is coldest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oft expectation fails, and most oft there Where most it promises; and oft it hits  Where hope is coldest and despair most fits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, how wretched Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favors!  There is betwixt that smile we would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54508]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, how wretched Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favors!  There is betwixt that smile we would aspire to,   That sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin,    More pangs and fears than wars or women have;     And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer,      Never to hope again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25620]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us put Germany, so to speak, in the saddle! you will see that she can ride. [Ger., Setzen wir ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17390]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us put Germany, so to speak, in the saddle! you will see that she can ride. [Ger., Setzen wir Deutschland, so zu sagen, in den Sattel! Reiten wird es schon konnen.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25991]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62180]]></link><description><![CDATA[What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, but to create something that will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65402]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, but to create something that will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44976]]></link><description><![CDATA[For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunities are everywhere. The recession might be drawing to a close, but its continuing legacy is employers' reliance on short-term ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunities are everywhere. The recession might be drawing to a close, but its continuing legacy is employers' reliance on short-term staff. There may be fewer jobs for life, but there are more jobs in a lifetime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["So the Bluebirds have contracted, have they, for a house? And a next is under way for little Mr. Wren?" ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4365]]></link><description><![CDATA["So the Bluebirds have contracted, have they, for a house? And a next is under way for little Mr. Wren?"  "Hush, dear, hush! Be quiet, dear! quiet as a mouse.   These are weighty secrets, and we must whisper them."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quemadmodum gladius neminem occidit, occidentis telum est."Latin: "A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47368]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quemadmodum gladius neminem occidit, occidentis telum est."Latin: "A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand. - Letters to Lucilius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let's not unman each other--part at once; All farewells should be sudden, when forever,  Else they make an eternity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let's not unman each other--part at once; All farewells should be sudden, when forever,  Else they make an eternity of moments,   And clog the last sad sands of life with tears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acting is about giving something away, handing yourself over to whatever role you are asked to play. I'm not hiding ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acting is about giving something away, handing yourself over to whatever role you are asked to play. I'm not hiding or escaping or seeking anonymity. I reserve the right not to have a rubber stamp on my forehead saying this is who I am. Because who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43345]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45672]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In this spacious isle I think there is not one But he hath heard some talk of Hood and Little ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57915]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this spacious isle I think there is not one But he hath heard some talk of Hood and Little John,  Of Tuck, the merry friar, which many a sermon made   In praise of Robin Hood, his outlaws, and their trade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Finite to fail, but infinite to venture. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His shortcoming is his long staying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4729]]></link><description><![CDATA[His shortcoming is his long staying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4729</guid></item></channel></rss>