<?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[April, April, Laugh thy girlish laughter,  Then, the moment after,   Weep thy girlish tears! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2997]]></link><description><![CDATA[April, April, Laugh thy girlish laughter,  Then, the moment after,   Weep thy girlish tears!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24960]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vision without action is a dream. Action without vision is simply passing the time. Action with Vision is making a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60825]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vision without action is a dream. Action without vision is simply passing the time. Action with Vision is making a positive difference.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign languages]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us face ourselves bravely as we are. For only a philosophy that recognizes reality can lead us into true ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52156]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us face ourselves bravely as we are. For only a philosophy that recognizes reality can lead us into true happiness, and only that kind of philosophy is sound and healthy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fact that writers will go through so much to remain writers says something, perhaps everything. It would be far ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3223]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fact that writers will go through so much to remain writers says something, perhaps everything. It would be far easier (and nearly always more profitable) to become a real estate agent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Manufacturing activity in the region appears to have cooled off. We suspect it will be another month or two before ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Manufacturing activity in the region appears to have cooled off. We suspect it will be another month or two before auto manufacturers start ramping up production to replenish sales-depleted inventories.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Rose of Lima, Contemplative, 1617   Lift up your heart to Him, sometimes even at your meals, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Rose of Lima, Contemplative, 1617   Lift up your heart to Him, sometimes even at your meals, and when you are in company; the least little remembrance will always be acceptable to Him. You need not cry very loud; he is nearer to us than we are aware of.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People that make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23231]]></link><description><![CDATA[People that make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's just a great stock to own here, ... The company is growing in excess of 20 percent. The demographics ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37125]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's just a great stock to own here, ... The company is growing in excess of 20 percent. The demographics are great for education. The company is selling at about 15 times what we think they can earn next year. It's also one of the few independent publishers left and so we think it's a strategic acquisition candidate, probably worth over $60 a share, and the stock's at about $45.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Widow and Her Little MaidensA widow who was fond of cleaning had two little maidens to wait on her. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1577]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Widow and Her Little MaidensA widow who was fond of cleaning had two little maidens to wait on her. She was in the habit of waking them early in the morning, at cockcrow. The maidens, aggravated by such excessive labor, resolved to kill the cock who roused their mistress so early. When they had done this, they found that they had only prepared for themselves greater troubles, for their mistress, no longer hearing the hour from the cock, woke them up to their work in the middle of the night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My greatest enemy is reality. I have fought it successfully for thirty years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41507]]></link><description><![CDATA[My greatest enemy is reality. I have fought it successfully for thirty years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resistthem-that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resistthem-that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flownaturally forward in whatever way they like.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man must get a thing before he can forget it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16472]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man must get a thing before he can forget it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66435]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guilt is abscent when the act is justified. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18457]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guilt is abscent when the act is justified.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23950]]></link><description><![CDATA[The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To-morrow never yet On any human being rose or set. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59458]]></link><description><![CDATA[To-morrow never yet On any human being rose or set.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So cowards fight when they can fly no further; So doves do peck the falcon's piercing talons;  So desperate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10500]]></link><description><![CDATA[So cowards fight when they can fly no further; So doves do peck the falcon's piercing talons;  So desperate thieves, all hopeless of their lives,   Breathe out invectives 'gainst the officers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And none speaks false, when there in none to hear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26109]]></link><description><![CDATA[And none speaks false, when there in none to hear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literature is a power to be possessed, not a body of objects to be studied. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25334]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literature is a power to be possessed, not a body of objects to be studied.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more. - The Writings of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22143]]></link><description><![CDATA[We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more. - The Writings of Madame Swetchine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A computer will do what you tell it to do, but that may be much different from what you had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9583]]></link><description><![CDATA[A computer will do what you tell it to do, but that may be much different from what you had in mind]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're certainly looking to expand our menswear offerings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32670]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're certainly looking to expand our menswear offerings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind. The difference lies not in the respective natures of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind. The difference lies not in the respective natures of savagery and civilization, but in their attendant circumstances, institutions, and so forth. The difference, therefore, does not operate in every sense, but it does in most of them. Even the most civilized peoples, in short, can be fired with passionate hatred for each other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There shall never be one lost good! What was shall live as before; The evil is null, is nought, is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17845]]></link><description><![CDATA[There shall never be one lost good! What was shall live as before; The evil is null, is nought, is silence implying sound;  What was good shall be good, with, for evil, so much good more;   On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We tell the public which way the cat is jumping. The public will take care of the cat. - "Time", ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27821]]></link><description><![CDATA[We tell the public which way the cat is jumping. The public will take care of the cat. - "Time", On Journalists, May 8, 1950.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject, when it seemed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19514]]></link><description><![CDATA[I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject, when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron scumbags devoid of any admirable human qualities. I failed history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54295]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How many roads must a man walk down Before your can call him a man? . . .  The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2656]]></link><description><![CDATA[How many roads must a man walk down Before your can call him a man? . . .  The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind,   The answer is blowin' in the wind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But to the purpose--for we cite our faults That they may hold excused our lawless lives;  And partly, seeing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25137]]></link><description><![CDATA[But to the purpose--for we cite our faults That they may hold excused our lawless lives;  And partly, seeing you are beautified   With goodly shape, and by your own report    A linguist, and a man of such perfection     As we do in our quality much want--]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a drear-nighted December, Too happy, happy brook,  Thy bubblings ne'er remember   Apollo's summer look;   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11568]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a drear-nighted December, Too happy, happy brook,  Thy bubblings ne'er remember   Apollo's summer look;    But with a sweet forgetting,     They stay their crystal fretting,      Never, never petting       About the frozen time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sneer is the weapon of the weak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54700]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sneer is the weapon of the weak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would appear as though I cannot catch second place. I'm fine. I'm feeling OK. I accomplished what I wanted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33914]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would appear as though I cannot catch second place. I'm fine. I'm feeling OK. I accomplished what I wanted to do, and that was run for an elected office and tell people that I was out there and I'm available.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20372]]></link><description><![CDATA[The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When it's all said and done we will lose a piece to a carnivorous vegetarian ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60452]]></link><description><![CDATA[When it's all said and done we will lose a piece to a carnivorous vegetarian]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why then, can one desire too much of a good thing? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11960]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why then, can one desire too much of a good thing?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suicide is a permanent solutionto a temporary problem(quoted by Judy Collins on Diane Rehm Show). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58222]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suicide is a permanent solutionto a temporary problem(quoted by Judy Collins on Diane Rehm Show).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are wiser than we know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26299]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are wiser than we know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older - the natural sequence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54352]]></link><description><![CDATA[She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older - the natural sequence of an unnatural beginning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45916]]></link><description><![CDATA[A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22472]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52832]]></link><description><![CDATA[In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know I have the ability to do so much more than just stand in front of the camera the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/860]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know I have the ability to do so much more than just stand in front of the camera the rest of my life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like strength is felt from hope, and from despair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57939]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like strength is felt from hope, and from despair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy is the art of thinking independently together ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53181]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy is the art of thinking independently together]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The doctrines of religion are resolved into carefulness; carefulness into vigorousness; vigorousness into guiltlessness; guiltlessness into abstemiousness; abstemiousness into cleanliness; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8859]]></link><description><![CDATA[The doctrines of religion are resolved into carefulness; carefulness into vigorousness; vigorousness into guiltlessness; guiltlessness into abstemiousness; abstemiousness into cleanliness; cleanliness into godliness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The body is sooner drest then the soule. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49808]]></link><description><![CDATA[The body is sooner drest then the soule.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49808</guid></item></channel></rss>