<?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[Dear, dead women, with such hair, too--what's become of all the gold Used to hang and brush their bosoms? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dear, dead women, with such hair, too--what's become of all the gold Used to hang and brush their bosoms?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love, free as air at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love, free as air at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strangely, I am ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23737]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strangely, I am ungrateful to these teachers]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eighty percent of success is showing up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21192]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eighty percent of success is showing up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are grateful fear disappears and abundance appears ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18144]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are grateful fear disappears and abundance appears]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We adore chaos because we love to produce order. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65446]]></link><description><![CDATA[We adore chaos because we love to produce order.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that's liberal To all alike, may do a good by chance,  But never out of judgment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24661]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that's liberal To all alike, may do a good by chance,  But never out of judgment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By all that's good and glorious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48526]]></link><description><![CDATA[By all that's good and glorious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm a meathead. I can't help it, man. You've got smart people and you've got dumb people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2289]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm a meathead. I can't help it, man. You've got smart people and you've got dumb people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To change one's life: 1. Starte immediately, 2. Do it flamboyantly, 3. No exceptions. -William James. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5563]]></link><description><![CDATA[To change one's life: 1. Starte immediately, 2. Do it flamboyantly, 3. No exceptions. -William James.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children are our most valuable natural resource. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6020]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children are our most valuable natural resource.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is a fool who thinks by force or skill, To turn the current of a woman's will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51773]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is a fool who thinks by force or skill, To turn the current of a woman's will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Party honesty is party expediency. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Party honesty is party expediency.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I look upon you as a gem of the old rock. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2480]]></link><description><![CDATA[I look upon you as a gem of the old rock.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Bible contains the revelation of the will of God. It contains the history of the creation of the world, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38412]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Bible contains the revelation of the will of God. It contains the history of the creation of the world, and of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We often say how impressive power is. But I do not find it impressive at all. The guns and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47959]]></link><description><![CDATA[We often say how impressive power is. But I do not find it impressive at all. The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure. They are necessary symbols. They protect what we cherish. But they are witness to hum.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We still have the raw material, there is no doubt about that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37913]]></link><description><![CDATA[We still have the raw material, there is no doubt about that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sleepe without supping, and wake without owing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49752]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sleepe without supping, and wake without owing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ophelia is forecast to become a hurricane within the next 12 hours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40856]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ophelia is forecast to become a hurricane within the next 12 hours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the only rating that should matter to her because people are voting with their money, by betting that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39077]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the only rating that should matter to her because people are voting with their money, by betting that the peso will continue to climb because she would pursue her economic reforms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I couldn't help but say to [Mr. Gorbachev], just think how easy his task and mine might be in these ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61213]]></link><description><![CDATA[I couldn't help but say to [Mr. Gorbachev], just think how easy his task and mine might be in these meetings that we held if suddenly there was a threat to this world from another planet. [We'd] find out once and for all that we really are all human beings here on this earth together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One is never too old to yearn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25796]]></link><description><![CDATA[One is never too old to yearn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not what we give, but what we share,-- For the gift without the giver is bare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not what we give, but what we share,-- For the gift without the giver is bare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One must be frank to be relevant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16624]]></link><description><![CDATA[One must be frank to be relevant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[a Christmas tree .. the perfect giftfor a guy... the plant is already dead(monologue Dec 10 2003). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20094]]></link><description><![CDATA[a Christmas tree .. the perfect giftfor a guy... the plant is already dead(monologue Dec 10 2003).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What I want back is what I wasBefore the bed, before the knife,Before the brooch-pin and the salveFixed me in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26897]]></link><description><![CDATA[What I want back is what I wasBefore the bed, before the knife,Before the brooch-pin and the salveFixed me in this parenthesis;Horses fluent in the wind,A place, a time gone out of mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As long as you follow the new procedural rules, it shouldn't hurt you that bad if the bankruptcy is really ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35018]]></link><description><![CDATA[As long as you follow the new procedural rules, it shouldn't hurt you that bad if the bankruptcy is really warranted,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wept as I remembered how often you and I had tired the sun with talking and sent him down ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28035]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wept as I remembered how often you and I had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41602]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My brother wouldn't let me just throw it back to him. He taught me how to long snap, and he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34737]]></link><description><![CDATA[My brother wouldn't let me just throw it back to him. He taught me how to long snap, and he told me I had to snap the ball back to him every time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Wild Ass and the LionA wild ass and a Lion entered into an alliance so that they might capture ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1609]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Wild Ass and the LionA wild ass and a Lion entered into an alliance so that they might capture the beasts of the forest with greater ease. The Lion agreed to assist the Wild Ass with his strength, while the Wild Ass gave the Lion the benefit of his greater speed. When they had taken as many beasts as their necessities required, the Lion undertook to distribute the prey, and for this purpose divided it into three shares. I will take the first share, he said, because I am King: and the second share, as a partner with you in the chase: and the third share (believe me) will be a source of great evil to you, unless you willingly resign it to me, and set off as fast as you can. Might makes right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics makes strange bed-fellows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47038]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics makes strange bed-fellows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot combine being a movie star with not being a movie star ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41918]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot combine being a movie star with not being a movie star]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61688]]></link><description><![CDATA[A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He always seemed to try to impress you by show. He didn't seem to have a lot of depth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42542]]></link><description><![CDATA[He always seemed to try to impress you by show. He didn't seem to have a lot of depth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think I love and reverence all arts equally, only putting my own just above the others; because in it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/418]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think I love and reverence all arts equally, only putting my own just above the others; because in it I recognize the union and culmination of my own. To me it seems as if when God conceived the world, that was Poetry; He formed it, and that was Sculpture; He colored it, and that was Painting; He peopled it with living beings, and that was the grand, divine, eternal Drama.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thank you for nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58986]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thank you for nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ninety percent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59718]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ninety percent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prevention is a whole lot less costly than treatment ? and maybe more effective. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prevention is a whole lot less costly than treatment ? and maybe more effective.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Running into debt isn't so bad. It's running into creditors that hurts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Running into debt isn't so bad. It's running into creditors that hurts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should listen first and foremost to our own experience...We should stop looking for saviors... Society has not existed for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52154]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should listen first and foremost to our own experience...We should stop looking for saviors... Society has not existed for thousands of years because it had a succession of saviors. It's existed because it has institutions and processes through which people can realize their own goals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This panics the community. It makes people scared. And for no reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37735]]></link><description><![CDATA[This panics the community. It makes people scared. And for no reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This doesn't mean that it will remain so strong in the next couple of quarters, but the Federal Reserve cannot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34763]]></link><description><![CDATA[This doesn't mean that it will remain so strong in the next couple of quarters, but the Federal Reserve cannot sit down and look and wait, because whatever they do today, it takes effect in six to 12 months.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very easy to say everything is outrageous. But if you have an oil company that's setting up its own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33231]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very easy to say everything is outrageous. But if you have an oil company that's setting up its own environmental department, for example, what do you do? Do you spit in its eye, or do you make sure that what they do actually has some substance?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the industry standard to put forth tainted information to sell the most drugs, ... Whether that is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38395]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the industry standard to put forth tainted information to sell the most drugs, ... Whether that is a sustainable situation that investors can benefit from, I can't answer that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to publick opinion. This is the weak point of our defenses, and the part to which the enemies of the system will direct all their attacks. Opinion can be so perverted as to cause the false to seem the true; the enemy, a friend, and the friend, an enemy; the best interests of the nation to appear insignificant, and trifles of moment; in a word, the right the wrong, and the wrong the right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have suffered lightly, if we have suffered what we should weep for. [Lat., Levia perpessi sumus  Si flenda ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58206]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have suffered lightly, if we have suffered what we should weep for. [Lat., Levia perpessi sumus  Si flenda patimur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Clinton Administration has seemed to put more concern on scoring political points than advancing serious reform. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38992]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Clinton Administration has seemed to put more concern on scoring political points than advancing serious reform.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38992</guid></item></channel></rss>