<?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 grass stoops not, she treads on it so light; . . . ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16415]]></link><description><![CDATA[The grass stoops not, she treads on it so light; . . .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis strange how like a very dunce, Man, with his bumps upon his sconce,  Has lived so long, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46576]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis strange how like a very dunce, Man, with his bumps upon his sconce,  Has lived so long, and yet no knowledge he   Has had, till lately, of Phrenology--    A science that by simple dint of     Head-combing he should find a hint of,      When scratching o'er those little pole-hills       The faculties throw up like mole hills.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47092]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses of men exhibit their tyranny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He always wants to come with me. He insists, and he cries if I can't take him. He's afraid that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41275]]></link><description><![CDATA[He always wants to come with me. He insists, and he cries if I can't take him. He's afraid that if I go, I won't ever come back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart resolves this matter in a trice, "Men only feel the smart, but not the vice." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60508]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart resolves this matter in a trice, "Men only feel the smart, but not the vice."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn't follow. I'd be at the bottom to catch ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25986]]></link><description><![CDATA[If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn't follow. I'd be at the bottom to catch them when they fall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10569]]></link><description><![CDATA[First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Christ the Lord is risen to-day," Sons of men and angels say.  Raise your joys and triumphs high;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13153]]></link><description><![CDATA["Christ the Lord is risen to-day," Sons of men and angels say.  Raise your joys and triumphs high;   Sing, ye heavens, and earth reply.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feeling and our manners, and rules us with the imperious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10887]]></link><description><![CDATA[Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feeling and our manners, and rules us with the imperious hand of a despot]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64535]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No sacrifice short of individual liberty, individual self-respect, and individual enterprise is too great a price to pay for permanent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54611]]></link><description><![CDATA[No sacrifice short of individual liberty, individual self-respect, and individual enterprise is too great a price to pay for permanent peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Classical musicians do this all the time. They want perfection. So they piece things together. Eight bars of this and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38347]]></link><description><![CDATA[Classical musicians do this all the time. They want perfection. So they piece things together. Eight bars of this and six bars of that. Glenn Gould said that with a recording he wanted to make perfect versions of pieces.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, Where nothing save the waves and I  May hear our mutual murmurs sweep; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, Where nothing save the waves and I  May hear our mutual murmurs sweep;   There, swan-like, let me sing and die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moe was like their child in many ways, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35860]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moe was like their child in many ways,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There needs no ghost, my lord, come from the grave To tell us this. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2788]]></link><description><![CDATA[There needs no ghost, my lord, come from the grave To tell us this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We try not to have ideas, preferring accidents. To create, you must empty yourself of every artistic thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10561]]></link><description><![CDATA[We try not to have ideas, preferring accidents. To create, you must empty yourself of every artistic thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13888]]></link><description><![CDATA[Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is a faculty of the psyche.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Another nice thing was that I would type out letters home for the admiral's stewards. They would then feed me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36861]]></link><description><![CDATA[Another nice thing was that I would type out letters home for the admiral's stewards. They would then feed me the same food the admiral ate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simple people ... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46071]]></link><description><![CDATA[Simple people ... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In true love, there is no mountain too high to climb. No river too wide to cross. And most of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65768]]></link><description><![CDATA[In true love, there is no mountain too high to climb. No river too wide to cross. And most of all in true love there is no ends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44482]]></link><description><![CDATA[Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers and be capable]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It makes the game so much easier for me. Playing with these guys has really stepped up my game to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32252]]></link><description><![CDATA[It makes the game so much easier for me. Playing with these guys has really stepped up my game to another level.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From this it appears how much more cruel the pen may be than the sword. [Lat., Hinc quam sit calamus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46014]]></link><description><![CDATA[From this it appears how much more cruel the pen may be than the sword. [Lat., Hinc quam sit calamus saevior euse, patet.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm really looking forward to playing, it was a real shame I haven't been able to play the last couple. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31637]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm really looking forward to playing, it was a real shame I haven't been able to play the last couple. This will be the first one that I'll play in after being picked for the past three years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We make everything funny, you wouldn't believe the things we laugh at. We're always laughing-people think we're completely mad! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23215]]></link><description><![CDATA[We make everything funny, you wouldn't believe the things we laugh at. We're always laughing-people think we're completely mad!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51930]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words without actions are the assassins of idealism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62025]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26757]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would not want to be the one to tell parents of the lastman to die in a war termed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45957]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would not want to be the one to tell parents of the lastman to die in a war termed a mistake that he was dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11640]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the fortune of France. [Fr., C'est la fortune de France.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16619]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the fortune of France. [Fr., C'est la fortune de France.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best economic development strategy for the next few years lies in fostering entrepreneurs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29365]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best economic development strategy for the next few years lies in fostering entrepreneurs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[During his lifetime, when he was insulted or encountered offensive behavior, he did not respond with rage or violence. Instead ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34339]]></link><description><![CDATA[During his lifetime, when he was insulted or encountered offensive behavior, he did not respond with rage or violence. Instead he taught his followers to respond with mercy and best behavior.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities . . . because it is the quality which guarantees all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities . . . because it is the quality which guarantees all others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds Makes ill deeds done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51348]]></link><description><![CDATA[How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds Makes ill deeds done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've invested a lot here, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29246]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've invested a lot here,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43583]]></link><description><![CDATA[As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1928]]></link><description><![CDATA[One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53905]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thirty is not an age for a woman anymore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33692]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thirty is not an age for a woman anymore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every artist writes his own autobiography. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every artist writes his own autobiography.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12120]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They that stand high have many blasts to shake them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51511]]></link><description><![CDATA[They that stand high have many blasts to shake them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For poets (bear the word) Half-poets even, are still whole democrats. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11862]]></link><description><![CDATA[For poets (bear the word) Half-poets even, are still whole democrats.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people who oppose your ideas are inevitably those who represent the established order that your ideas will upset. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21999]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people who oppose your ideas are inevitably those who represent the established order that your ideas will upset.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His work well done, the leader stepped aside Spurning a crown with more than kingly pride.  Content to wear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61252]]></link><description><![CDATA[His work well done, the leader stepped aside Spurning a crown with more than kingly pride.  Content to wear the higher crown of worth,   While time endures, "First citizen of earth."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're going to be a team that's going to surprise some people. Our hitting is coming around. We worked hard ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40956]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're going to be a team that's going to surprise some people. Our hitting is coming around. We worked hard in the off-season to get strong and have faster bat speed. And so far, it looks like we have more pop in the bat this year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Globalization could be the answer to many of the world's seemingly intractable problems. But this requires strong democratic foundations based ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Globalization could be the answer to many of the world's seemingly intractable problems. But this requires strong democratic foundations based on a political will to ensure equity and justice".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17526</guid></item></channel></rss>