<?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[To be a housewife is to be a member of a very peculiar occupation, one with characteristics like no other. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19902]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be a housewife is to be a member of a very peculiar occupation, one with characteristics like no other. The nature of the duties to be performed, the method of payment, the form of supervision, the tenure system, the "market" in which the "workers" find "jobs," and the physical hazzards are all very different from the way things are in other occupations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give me liberty, or give me death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give me liberty, or give me death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man shapes himself through decision that shape his environment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27924]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man shapes himself through decision that shape his environment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But they that are above Have ends in everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51914]]></link><description><![CDATA[But they that are above Have ends in everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Firm and erect the Caledonian stood; Sound was his mutton, and his claret good;  "Let him drink port!" the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61666]]></link><description><![CDATA[Firm and erect the Caledonian stood; Sound was his mutton, and his claret good;  "Let him drink port!" the English statesman cried:   He drank the poison, and his spirit died.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tact consists in knowing how far to go too far. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tact consists in knowing how far to go too far.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a decision - not an emotion ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25425]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a decision - not an emotion]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dame Nature gave him comeliness and health, And Fortune (for a passport) gave him wealth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dame Nature gave him comeliness and health, And Fortune (for a passport) gave him wealth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21166]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who would have the kernel must crack the shell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50868]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who would have the kernel must crack the shell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A golden key will open every lock. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23687]]></link><description><![CDATA[A golden key will open every lock.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58227]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind is just another muscle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22628]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind is just another muscle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Dutch are a great team, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39056]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Dutch are a great team,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brown versus the Board of Education is no longer the white person's problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brown versus the Board of Education is no longer the white person's problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obviously, there's quite a lot of concern about what's going on around the world. Greed has been replaced by fear. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42201]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obviously, there's quite a lot of concern about what's going on around the world. Greed has been replaced by fear. There's not much rationality in a greed environment and there's not much rationality in a fear environment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was born within the sound of Bow-bell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25456]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was born within the sound of Bow-bell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His legs bestrid the ocean: his reared arm Crested the world: his voice was propertied  As all the tuned ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54503]]></link><description><![CDATA[His legs bestrid the ocean: his reared arm Crested the world: his voice was propertied  As all the tuned spheres, and that to friends;   But when he meant to quail and shake the orb,    He was as rattling thunder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His pitch count was good. We don't have another game until Thursday, so after the fifth inning I told him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32715]]></link><description><![CDATA[His pitch count was good. We don't have another game until Thursday, so after the fifth inning I told him I was going to give him a shot to go the full distance. I'm very proud of what we saw from him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[May you look back on the past with as much pleasure as you look forward to the future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19416]]></link><description><![CDATA[May you look back on the past with as much pleasure as you look forward to the future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet 'tis greater skill In a true hate to pray they have their will;  The very devils cannot plague ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18863]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet 'tis greater skill In a true hate to pray they have their will;  The very devils cannot plague them better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46901]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The inertia of the human mind and its resistance to innovation are most clearly demonstrated not, as one might expect, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52021]]></link><description><![CDATA[The inertia of the human mind and its resistance to innovation are most clearly demonstrated not, as one might expect, by the ignorant mass- which is easily swayed once its imagination is caught- but by professionals with a vested interest in tradition and in the monopoly of learning. Innovation is a twofold threat to academic mediocrities: it endangers their oracular authority, and it evokes the deeper fear that their whole, laboriously constructed intellectual edifice might collapse. The academic backwoodsmen have been the curse of genius from Aristarchus to Darwin and Freud; they stretch, a solid and hostile phalanx of pedantic mediocrities, across the centuries.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3474]]></link><description><![CDATA[An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While I deduce, From the first note the hollow cuckoo sings,  The symphony of spring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10816]]></link><description><![CDATA[While I deduce, From the first note the hollow cuckoo sings,  The symphony of spring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At thirty, man suspects himself a fool, Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan;  At fifty, chides his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43177]]></link><description><![CDATA[At thirty, man suspects himself a fool, Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan;  At fifty, chides his infamous delay,   Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve,    In all the magnanimity of thought;     Resolves, and re-resolves, then dies the same.      And why? because he thinks himself immortal,       All men think all men mortal but themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63893]]></link><description><![CDATA[So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is not a profession, it is a destiny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46767]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is not a profession, it is a destiny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hasten slowly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5378]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hasten slowly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of my own spirit let me be in sole though feeble mastery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of my own spirit let me be in sole though feeble mastery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Said the little Eohippus, "I am going to be a horse,  And on my middle fingernails   To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14351]]></link><description><![CDATA[Said the little Eohippus, "I am going to be a horse,  And on my middle fingernails   To run my earthly course!    . . . .     I'm going to have a flowing tail!      I'm going to have a mane!       I'm going to stand fourteen hands high        On the Psychozoic plain!"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate ingratitude more in man Than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,  Or any taint of vice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51529]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate ingratitude more in man Than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,  Or any taint of vice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have of late--but wherefore I know not--lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed, it goes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56522]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have of late--but wherefore I know not--lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed, it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame the earth seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire--why, it appeareth nothing to me but a foul and pestilent congregation of vapors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a creature That dotes on Cassio, as 'tis the strumpet's plague  To beguile many and be beguiled ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58909]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a creature That dotes on Cassio, as 'tis the strumpet's plague  To beguile many and be beguiled by one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13381]]></link><description><![CDATA[If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philo swears that he has never dined at home, and it is so; he does not dine at all, except ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Philo swears that he has never dined at home, and it is so; he does not dine at all, except when invited out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19783]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe at once in evil, we only believe in good upon reflection. Is this not sad? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10619]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe at once in evil, we only believe in good upon reflection. Is this not sad?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace is a two way road of conflict and compromise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace is a two way road of conflict and compromise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best rules to form a young man are: to talk little, to hear much, toreflect alone upon what has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22189]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best rules to form a young man are: to talk little, to hear much, toreflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's ownopinions, and value others' that deserve it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that thinks amiss, concludes worse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49404]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that thinks amiss, concludes worse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics. It does not matter that they should be accurate, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57865]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics. It does not matter that they should be accurate, or even intelligible, as long as there is enough of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I told him to bring it down to the courthouse if he wants some of me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38120]]></link><description><![CDATA[I told him to bring it down to the courthouse if he wants some of me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51665]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is to -- act as if it were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17031]]></link><description><![CDATA[All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is to -- act as if it were impossible to fail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9325]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men [are] of one metal, but not in one mold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27034]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men [are] of one metal, but not in one mold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57096]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All places are distant from heaven alike. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19083]]></link><description><![CDATA[All places are distant from heaven alike.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27877]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27877</guid></item></channel></rss>